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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 „
M6 „
1
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
i r? a : i s s | si
I I s 'i i i s is
«9l 802 \u6 1056 2172 1028 898 I9l6
IS ?9l 1095 970 2065 1038 937 1975
CATALOGUE
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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
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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
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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-
' 10 SHBFUELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
i'-i SHEFFIELD I.OCAI. RKGISTER.
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.
^^HEFFJiBlD I,OCAL RECaSTER. 13
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
14 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEK.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 13
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
16 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGiSTEK.
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
SUEFFIKLD LOCAL REOISTKR. 1/
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 19
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 !>}
20 SHEFFIKLD 1-OCAL REGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER. Zl
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.
^8 SHEFFIELD LOCAL RKGlSTEKy
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
SHEFFIKI.D LOCAL REftlSTKR. '^^
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 31
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-
32 SHEFFIKI.D LOCAT. REOISTER.
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,
SHEPFIEI-D LOCAL REGISTER. 33
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."
34 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFriE/.U LOCAL REGISTER, 35
''"--'• 136S250
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 49
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
50 SHEFFIKM) LOCAL HEGJSTKR.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTKK, 51
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
52 SHEFFiKLD LOCAL KKGISTEB.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER. Od
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
54 SHBFKtELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 55
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
56 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEK.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 0/
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.;
58 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SKEFFIEI-D LOCAL REGISTEH, 59
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,
60 SHEFFIELD LOCAl, REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 61
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 63
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.
64 SHKFFIKLD LOCAL BKGXSTEK,
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
SHBFFIKX.D I.OCAf- RKfJISTKK. K>i)
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.
W SHEFFIELD LOCAL AEOiSTCTi.
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.
SHEFFIELD tOCAI. BEGISTEB. 6/
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
(\
68 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEXi
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. '
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, HKGISTKB. C9
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.
^& SllKKFrKLD LOCAL REGISTER.
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER. 7]
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. -^
72 SIIEVHEI.D J.OCAI, REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. • 73
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. ^
74 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELB LOCAL REGISTER. 75
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.
76 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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-
SHEFFIELD lO'GAL REGISTER. /7
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
/b SHEPKIELD LOCAL REGISTEK.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTF.R. 79
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-
80 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1795—96.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAf, KECrlSTKR. bl
17%.
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
OZ SHEFFIELD LOCAh REGISTER".
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEIU 83
1797.
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. ;
84 SIIEFKIELD LOCAL REGISTER]
1797.
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." ^
S^HKFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 85
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
86 SHEFFIRI.D T.OCAL REOfSTEK.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 87
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.
88 SHKFK1KI.D LOCAL RKGISTEJT,
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.
SHEFFIKX.U LOCAL REGISTKR. 89
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.
yV SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. SI
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.
92 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1800.
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAf, REOISTKRv 93
1800.
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
94 SHEFFIELD I.OCAh REOISTKR.
1 801.
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.
Vb fKEFYlKLT) LOTA I, REGISTER
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 9)
1802.
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.
93^ SHEITIELD LOCAL REGISTER. ■
J 802.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 99
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.
JQ© SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTKR.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTF.R. J'U
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
102 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEH.
1803.
./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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 103
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-
]04 SHEFFIELD LOCAL HEOISTER.
1804.
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.
SHEFFIEI-D LOCAf, KEGISTER. 105
180i.
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.
106 PHKFFIEI.D I.OCAT. BEGISTF.R.
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
SilEFFIELD roc A I, REGISTER. 107
1805.
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-
lOB SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 109
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.
6HEPKIELB- LOCAL RE6XSTEB. HI
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-
•112 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTKB.
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.
SHEFFIErO LOCAL REGISTER, 133
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
114
SHKKFIELD LOCAL BEOISTEK.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 116
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,
SHEFFIELD LOCAf, TIEGISTER. 117
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.
118 SHKFFIEITD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
126 SKEFVIELD LOCAL REGISTER
1809.
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.
SHI-TKFIBLD LOCAL REOlgTER. 121
1809.
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.
M
122 SHEKFIEM) I.Of'AI. RKGISIKR.
1809.
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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1809-10.
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
124 6HEKF1K1.D LOCAL REGISTKK.
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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1810.
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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1810-11.
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
SHEFFIELD 1-0<;AI. RKGJSTEH. 129
1811.
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.
130 SHEVKl£l,D LOCAr. RECMSTEH.
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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1812.
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-
192
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1812.
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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1812.
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.
N
IHR .'^MEFFIBLB LOCAL RKOISTKR.
1812.
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.
I
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1812.
(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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1812-13,
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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1813.
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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1813.
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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1813-14.
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
140 8HEFi''I£LD tO«AL llliOIS.Ti:R.
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<rfwagȴ.
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1814.
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
MS SHEFFIELD LOCA\, RKaiSTER.
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
144 SHEFFIELD l.OOAt REGISTER.
1815.
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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1815-16.
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.
146 SHBFFIKf.n l.Oa.Kh REOISTKIt.
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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1S16.
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;
SJIEPFIELD LOCAL RKOISTER. 149
15] 7.
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
150 SHEFfrELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1817x '
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGiSTEB. iol
I8I7.
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 ;
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, BKGISTKR. 153
1818.
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.
154 SHKPFIEI.D LOCAL REOISTKR.
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.
SHEFFIELD I.OCAI, REGISTER. 15;5
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:
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 167
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-
160 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGllSTEB.
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."
>«HEKFIKL"0 r.OCAl, KEOISTKH. 161
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
IbZ SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
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.
SUEFFIKLD LOCAL HEGISTKH, J 63
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
\
1-64 SHKKKIELD LOCAL RK.GISTEH.
1821.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOOAI, REGISTEK. 165
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
1S6 KHKFFIELD LOCAL ttEOlSTKH.
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-
SHEFFIELD U>"41. RKGISTKH. 1^7
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.
168 SHEFFIELD I.OCAI REGISTER.
1822.
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.
SHEFFlEIiD LOCAL REGISTER. 169
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
SHEVKIELD LOCAL REfiiSTER. 171
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,
172 SHEFKIKI.D X.OCAI, REOISTER*
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REOISTEB. 1?^
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.
q2
174 SHKFFIEtD LOCAL KEOISTEB.
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
SHEFFIELD I.OCAI. RKGISTEK. 177
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."
178 SflKKFlELD I,OCAT. REOISTER.
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-
180 SHEKHKI,n LOCAL KKGISTEK.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTEH. 182
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
SHEFKlELb LOCAL RKGISTER. 185
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
186 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEK.
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-
190 SHKFKIKLD LOCAL REGISTKR.
1827.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 191
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,
192 SHEFFIKI.D LOCAL UKOISTKR.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 193
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
194 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD 1,0CAI. HEGISTKK. ] 95
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
I
196 SHEFMEM) LOCAt REGISTER
1828.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 197
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
198 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEM.
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'>-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 199
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.
200 SHBPKIBLD LOCAL HEGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD tOCAI. RRGISTKR. ZUl
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.
S02 SHKFFIEM) I.OCAl, REGISTER.
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
20^ SHKFFIKLD LOCAL REOISTEB.
1829.
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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1829.
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
206 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1829.
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEK. 207
1829.
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.
20b. SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER
1829.
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.
SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REOISTKK. 20JJ
1829.
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
210 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEH.
1829.
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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1829.
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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HEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1830.
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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SHEFUlilli l.OCAr,
ISSO.
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
SHKFKIKLD LOCAL UEGISTEU.
L>15
1830.
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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1830.
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.
SHliKKlKLD LOCAl, KEGISTER. 21?
1830.
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.
u2
218 SH^:FF[^:LD local RKOisTKn.
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.
SHEI-KIKI.D I.OtAJ, KEGI.'^Ti:i{- -11'
ISoO.
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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1S30.
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.
SHliFFIKLU T.OC.AJ. KF.GISTKH. -- 1
1830.
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
SIIKKKIKI.P t.O(AI. RIUJI.STKK. L'l'.»
18.30.
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.
B24
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)
SHEFFIELD LOCAL IlEGISTER. ^^O
1830.
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."
226 iHEFflELD LOCAL nEGISTER.
J830.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 227
1830.
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.
228 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1830.
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
OP THE
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1831.
-./aw.
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
230 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1831.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL RKOI.STIK. 231
18^1.
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.
232 BifEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1831.
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
234 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1831.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. "* 235
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.
S36 SHEFFICLD LOCAL KEtilSTEtl.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 239
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-
949 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 241
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-
■HEFPIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 243
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.
8HEFFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 245
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-
24S SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 251
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.
252 eh£ffii:ld local registek.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 355
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,
258 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1833.
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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1833.
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.
d60 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1833.
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
ZbZ SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 263
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.
CONTINUATION
OF THB
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.
c
26& gnV.FFIKI.D LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFi'IELD LOCAL REGISTKR.- 207
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-
363 9HBFFIELD I.OCAl, REGISTEK,
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BKGISTEB. 269
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.
+
SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTER,
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
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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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183G.
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.
284 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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*
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER, 285
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER, 2o7
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.
298 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTBR.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 291
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.
292 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 293
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
294 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1837.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 29J
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
296 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1S37.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 297
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.
298 SHSFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
300 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 301
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
302 SHEFFIELD LOCAL UEGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 303
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.
306 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1838.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 307
1838.
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
dOO SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTBR.
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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1838.
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
310 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1838.
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
SHEFFIELD tOCAL REGISTER. 311
1838.
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.
1
312 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1838.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAl REGISTER. 313
1838.
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.
314 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1838.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER, 315
1838.
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
316 SHEF-IELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
318 SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER.
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,
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 319
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.
320 SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 321
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.
SHBFFIELDr LOCAL. REGISTER. 323"
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-
526 SHEFFIELD lOCAt REGISTER.
1839.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. C327
1839.
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.
^iB SBETFIIUD IaOCAL RBCISTBR.
1839.
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.
SHErFIKl.D LOCAI. REOISTKIl. 3S9
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,
330' SHEFFIELD LOCAI. REOISTEB.
1839.
. 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 : —
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September, up to 19th
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.
1837.
1838.
1839.
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1.08 in.
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2.05 ..
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.17 ..
2.74
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 331
1839.
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-
332 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1839.
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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1839.
^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.
334 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1839.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 335
1839.
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.]
THE
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,
Complete, from the earliest period to the end of 1839,
May be had, bound in cloth, at the Independent Office.
Price 5s.
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The following Diary, showing on what day of the week
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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.
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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
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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.
ctrculation^oFn ewspapers.
STAMPS ISSUED TO Newspapers ^f.Sff ";^!;"
AND NEtGHBOUKlNG ToWNS, FOR 1839 & 1H4(U
Sheffieldlndependent
Sheffield Mercury
Sheffield Iris
Sheffield ratriot
Doncaster Gazette ..
Nottineham Review . .
Nottingham Journal..
Derby Mercury
Nottingham Mercury
Derby Reporter
Doncaster Chronicle..
Hull Packet
Hull Times
Chesterfield Courier..
Halifax Guardian . . .
Hull Rockingham ....
Chesterfield Chronicle
Wakefield Herald ...,
Halifax Express
1839.
Weekly
1810.
Weekly
Jan. to Dec.
Avrg.
Jan.toJn.
Avrg.
108,500
2086
60,500
2,326
<)0,7.50
174.^)
45,000
1731
44.000
a4fi
20,000
769
29,000
5h7
9,000
346
120.000
2307
58,000
2230
98, COO
1884
53,000
2038
9.^,000
lS2(i
l(i,000
625
67.:500
1W4
35,000
1346
.■J.'i.OOO
1019
3f;,000
1384
^7 000
109(i
.'^0,000
1153
42,000
807
27,000
1038
51,SfS4
987
17,500
673
40,000
39.50)
773
759
25,000
23,000
961
881
38.000
730
18,000
692
3.i,000
fi73
20,000
769
40,000
7(i9
15,000
576
3.1.000
673
18,000
692
20,500
394
10,700
411
PROGRESS OF
1838.
Stamps 74,j40
Advertisements
2.7.38
THE INDEPENDENT.
1839. 1840.
... 108,. 500 .... 113,500
2,960 .... 3,326
'lEADBB, printer, independent OFFICK, SHEFFIELD.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 357
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-
58 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1841.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 359
1841.
^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-
SHEPriELD LOCAL REGISTER.
^^ 1841.
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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1841.
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
362 SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTER.
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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1841.
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
364 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
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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1842.
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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1842.
. 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.
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368 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
■ 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.
3/0 SHEFFIKLD LOCAL HKGISTER.
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
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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.
374 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEft.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEn. 377
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 : —
1838. 1839. 1S40. 1841. 1842.
Stamps 74.140.. 108,500.. 118,000.. 121, 000.. 123..5O0
Advertisements .. 2,738.. 2,960.. 3,326.. 3,465.. 3,752
° 77ie Sheffield Local Register, complete from the
earliest jyeriod to the present tim£, neatly bound, may be
had at the Independent Office, price 5s.
CIRCULATION OF SHEFFIELD NEWSPAPERS.
Number of Stamps issued to the Sheffield J^ewspapors.
(official return.)
iRAn 1B41 "^*°- *° "^""®> Weeklj
1840. 1841. jQ^2 Av.1842
Independent, nS,000 121,000 67,500^-^2596
Afercury .... 90,000 67,500 44,000 161 J
Jrit 39^00 16,500
LBADBR, PRINTER, 8HBPFIBLD.
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.
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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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 397'
1844.
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
ayo SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 399
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 401
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 403
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
■\
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 407
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-
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 411
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEOISTER, 415
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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THE MOON'S CHANGES.
Januarv— 1st quar., 4th ; full, 12th ; last quar., 20th; new, 27lh.
February- 1st quar., 3rd ; full, 1 lih ; last quar., 19lh ; new, 25th.
March— 1st quar., 4th: full, 13th; last quar., 20ih ; new, 27th.
April— I St quar., 3rd; full, 11th ; last quar., 18th; new, 25th.
May— 1st quar., 3rd; full, lllh; last quar., 1 8th ; new,25th.
June— 1st quar., 2nd; full, 9th; last quar., 16th; new, 23rd.
July— 1st quar., 1st; full, 8lh ; last quar., 15th ; new, 23rd; 1st
quar., 31st.
August— Full, 7th ; last quar., 13lh ; new 21st ; 1st quar., 28th.
September— Full, 5th ; last quar., 12lh ; new, 20th ; 1st quar., 28.
October— Full, 4th ; last quar., 12th ; new,20th; 1st quar., 27ih.
November— Full, 3rd ; last quar:, 10th ; new, 18th ; 1st qr., 2.^ih
December— Full, 2i)d; last quar., 10th ; new, ISlh; 1st qr. 2;jth
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.
4:26 iHKFFIELD lOCAL HEGI9TER.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. V4i
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
428 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 4xJ9
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,
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 431
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.
432 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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
434 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER.
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.
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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
464 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
1849.
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.
SHEFFIELD lOCAL EEGISTEE. 465
1849.
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.
4C6 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
1849.
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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1849.
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.
468 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
1849.
^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.
SHEFFIELB lOCAL REGISTEK. 469
1849.
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.
470 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEE.
1849.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 471
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,
472 SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGI3TEB.
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.
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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-
fiHKFFIELD LOCAL EEGI8TEB. 47S
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB, 479
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.
492 SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER.
1851.
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 . . „
791
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.
4:94 SHEFFIELD lOCAl BEGISTEB.
1851,
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-
4118 SHEFFIELD LOCAL aEGISTEB.
1852.
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.
aOy SHEFFIELD LOCAL BE6ISTEK.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 501
1852.
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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002 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 50S
1852.
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.
504 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
IS52.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 505
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.
506 SHEFFIELD LOCAl REGISTER.
1852.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 507
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.
O08 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER.
1853.
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
\_P RESENTED TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE InDEPENDENT.I
CONTINUATION
OF THE
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
9lO SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEB.
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.
SHKITIELD LOCAL BEGISTER. 511
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.
513 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEH,
1853.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB. 818
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
"SIX SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTER.
1853.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISIEB. .^15
1853.
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.
51G SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEOISTSK.
1853.
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'
SHEFFIEID LOCAL BEGISTEK. 517
1853.
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.
518 SHErFIEXD XOCiX KEGISTEB.
1853.
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."
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 519
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.
520 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEK.
1853.
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.
623 SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER.
1854.
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.'
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISXEB, 523
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.
624 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
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
526 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB. 527
1854
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.
528 SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEE.
1854.
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
SHEFFIEID LOCAL REGISTEB. 529
1854.
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.
530 SHEFFIELD LOCAl KEGISTEB.
1854.
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.
532 SUEFFIEtD LOCAL BEGISTER.
1854.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER.
1855.
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
534 SHEFFIELD LOCAI, BEGISTKB.
1855.
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.
538 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER.
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.
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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.
544 SlBEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
1855.
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. . .
October 3i420. . . .3.180. . . .4.2.36. . .
November 6.200. . . .3.185. . . .3.871 . . .
December 2.S30 230. . . .8.194. . .
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..3 916..
.,.1.186
..5.630..
..3.630..
..1.700
-.2.210
.1.110..
..1.225..
.. .270..
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. .2.910
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lPJtSSS^TED TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE INDEPENDENT.]
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.
548 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.
1856.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 647
I806.
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.
S48 eHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISXEB.
1856.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB. 549
1856.
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
556 SH^FFIEtD LOCAL BEGISTBB.
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
•SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGI8TEB. 551
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'.
592 BBEPFIELD LOCAt BEGISTEB.
1856.
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
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEB. 553
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.
554 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 565
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
5^8 SHEFFIELD tOCAL REOISTEB.
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.
558 SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER.
1857.
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.
560 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEK.
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-
SHEFFIELD tOCAL BEGISTER. 561
]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.
562 SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEQISTEH.
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.
SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 563
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.
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