Witzcleben, K. A. (Trömlitz), dies,
Wiveliscombe, population of, '33. 72.
Woad, duty on (1829), '30. 202; (1832), '33. 193.
Woburn, difference of time between, and London, '31. 14.
and Hockliffe Roads Trust, tolls collected on, in 1834 and 1839, 42. 119. Wolcot, J., '31. 76; '32. 62. Wolfe, General, death of, '28. 61. Wolfenbuttel and Brunswick Rail- way, opened, '40. 255. Wolff, '31. 77, 78; '32. 73. Wolfsbane, poisonous properties of,
and remedies against, 28. 119. Wolga, passed by the Visigoths, '28.
Wollaston, T., '31. 78; '32. 62.
Dr., camera lucida, '29. 63; his discoveries in the treat- ment of stone and gravel, '35. 35, 36; he dies, '39. 246. "Wolsey, Life of," '32. 59. Wolverhampton, population
(1821), '29. 82; population and representation, '33. 73; ecclesias- tical revenues of (1835), '36. 83; new road at, opened (1831), '32. 234; riot at, '36. 244, 245; Chapel Amendment Act, '41. 217; Mines Leasing Act, '36. 211.
Woo, one of the Chinese celestial
signs, '30. 27; a Chinese horary character, id. 28; a Chinese divi- sion of the day, '31. 9. Wood, Mr., of Gloucester, case on his will decided, '42. 241. Wood, cause of the circles observed in, when cut, '29. 29.
duty on, from British Ame- rica, Act imposing (5 and 6 W. IV. c. 40), '36. 123.
for ships, duty on (1832),
-anemone, the, '28. 34; general time of its blowing, '30. 39. pigeon, the, '28. 40. sorrel, 28. 34.
pavement in Oxford-street,
Woodbridge, population of, '33. 73.
Woodcock, the, '28. 33. Woodhouse, Mr., death of, '29.240. Mr. Thomas, his details
of the progress of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, up to 1829, '30. 248-250. Woodington, Lieutenant-Colonel, his military operations (India), '32. 42.
Woodside Road Act, '42. 195. Woodstock, population and repre- sentation of, '33. 71.
Woods and Forests, chief-commis- sioner of, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, '35. 211; see further, LAND REVENUE. Wool, duty on (1829), '30. 202; produce of additional duties on (1840 and 1841), '42. 153; ex- ports, quantity, and declared value of exports of, in 1828, '31. 177; exports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 162; the same, in 1835, 1836, and 1837, '39. 183; the same, and quafiti- ties thereof, in 1838, '40. 180; the same, in 1839, '41. 187; the same, in 1840, '42. 159; quan- tity and value exported from Western Australia (1834), '36. 182; British, imported (1829), '31. 189; and woollens, British, value of, exported, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, 29. 192; British and woollen yarn and manufactures, quantity exported in the year 1832, 34. 166; see WOOLLENS, and WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS; IMPORTS foreign, quantity of, imported into, and exported from the United Kingdom, in each of the years, from 1821 to 1827 in- clusive, 28. 168; English, quantity exported, in each of the same years, id. ib. ; quantity of foreign imported into, and of British ex- ported, from London, or outports, in 1824 to 1829, '30. 212; fo- reign, imported, in 1829, '31. 189; foreign, quantity imported and re-exported, in 1832, and whence imported, '34. 166.
cotton,duty on (1829), '30.201; produce of additional duties on (1840 and 1841), '42. 153; value of, imported, in 1827, '28. 167;
sheeps', ditto, 28. 167; cotton, import, export, and home con- sumption of, in 1828, 31. 176; sheeps' ditto, ditto, id. ib.; cot- ton, import, export, and home consumption of (1830), '31. 180; quantities imported, in 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834, from several coun- tries of the world, '36. 168; home consumption of, from 1833 to1835, and average of same, from 1826 to 1835, 37. 167; imports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, id. 163; import and home consump- tion of, and duty on, in 1837, '39. 187; the same, in 1838, '40. 179; the same, in 1839, '41. 186. Wool, cotton, quantity exported, in 1833 and 1834, '36. 156; exports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 162.
cotton and sheeps', import, ex- port, and home consumption of, in 1830, 33. 178; in 1831, '34. 157; imported, amount of duty on, in 1830, 1831, and 1832, id.
sheeps', imports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 163; imports and home consumption of, and duty on, in 1837, 39. 187; the same, in 1838, '40. 179; the same, in 1839, '41. 186; the same, in 1840, '42. 159; import, export, and home consumption of (1830), '32. 180; quantity and declared value of, exported, in 1830, '33. 179; exports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 162; and lambs', quantity and declared value of ex- ports of, in 1840, '42. 162; export of, from Ireland, in 1825 and 1835, '39. 189.
sheeps' and lambs', quantity and value of, exported, 1831, '34. 158; quantity exported, from 1820 to 1832, id. 167; value of exports of, in years ending 5th January, 1833 and 1834, '35. 173; British, quantity of, exported, 1833, id. 176; value of exports of, in 1833 and 1834, '36. 157; quantity exported, in 1833 and 1834, id. 156; the same, in 1840, '42. 162; quantity of, imported,
and from whence, in 1833, and quantity exported, '35. 176; im- port, export, and home con- sumption of, in 1834, '36. 168; in 1835, 37. 167; import and export of, in 1835 and 1836, '38. 177; import and home consump- tion of, and duty on, in 1837, '39. 187; the same, in 1838, '40. 179; the same, in 1839, '41. 186; the same, in 1840, '42. 159; quan- tity imported from Germany, in 1840, id. 163.
Wool, sheeps' and lambs', quantity under bond on 5th January, 1835, '36. 168; see also WOOLLENS.
factories, number of, in the United Kingdom, and number and ages of persons engaged therein, in 1835, '36. 181, 182, Woolcombe, Mr. T., fined and im- prisoned, '34. 250.
Wooldale, population of, '33. 78. Woolf, steam-engine, '29. 63. Woolfrey, Mrs. Mary Ann, suit against, for erecting a tombstone, with inscription, without leave of the vicar, '40. 255. Woolhouse, Mr. W. S. B., his com-
putation of the ephemeris of Hal- ley's comet, in 1835-36, '33. 24. Woollen clothing, its properties, '29. 121; importance of, in a variable climate, id. 124.
Woollen manufacturers, allowances to, see SOAP.
Woollen manufactures, quantity and declared value of exports of, in 1828, '31. 177; in 1830, '33. 179; in 1831, 34. 158; from 1820 to 1832, id. 167; value of ex- ports of, in years ending 5th Ja- nuary, 1833 and 1834, 35. 173; British, value of, exported to se- veral foreign countries, in the year 1833, id. 177; value of, ex- ported, in 1833 and 1834, '36.
in 1834, id. 168; exports of, to foreign countries, in 1835, '37. 167; export of, value of, in 1835 and 1836, '38. 177; export of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 162; the same, and quan- tities thereof, in 1838, '40. 180; the same, in 1839, '41. 187; the
same, in 1840, '42. 162; the same, and to what countries exported from the United Kingdom, in the same year, id. 161.
Woollen manufactures, exports of, from Ireland, in 1825 and 1835, '39. 189.
imports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 163.
Woollens, value of, exported, in 1827, '28. 167; hosiery and small wares, declared value of exports of, in 1828, 31. 177; exports of, in 1820 and 1831, '34. 50; and worsted yarn, quantity of, ex- ported, from 1820 to 1832, id. 167; quantity of, exported, in 1833, '35. 176; exports of, value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 162; the same, in 1835, 1836, and 1837, '39. 183; the same, and quantities thereof, in 1838, '40. 180; the same, in 1839, '41. 187.
value of, imported, at Goole, from 1828 to 1829, '30. 121; see also WOOL. Woolnoth, W., dies, '38. 128. Woolly Philydrum, '31. 42.
-leaved myrtle, '31. 42. Woolwich, population of (1821), '29. 82; steam-docks, strike of the masons at, '42. 243; number of passengers to, by the Blackwall Railway, in 1841, id. 66. Wootton (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act, '37. 217.
under-Edge (Gloucester- shire), population of, '33. 63. Worcester, Florence of, '32. 58. Marquis of, steam-en-
city of, population of (1821), 29. 82; population and representation of, '33. 76; County Hall and Courts of Justice Act, '32. 215; County Infirmary Leasing Act, '36. 211; Market Act, '38. 210.
Idiocese, of number of Sunday schools in the, in 1826, '29.95; number of parishes, bene- fices, and churches and chapels in, and population of (1834), '35.
128; revenue of bishop, of cathe- dral, and of benefices, sums paid to curates, in whom patronage of benefices vested, and other parti. culars relating to same (1835), '36.82-89. Worcestershire, extent and popula- tion of, and number of sessions,ma- gistrates, and parishes in, '28. 78; population of, and of the principal towns of, in 1811, 1821, and 1831, value of real property in, and its representation, '33. 76; summary of same, in 1821 and 1831, dis- tinguishing the sexes, id. 89; the same, in 1841, '42. 107; po- pulation of, in 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, and 1841, and increase per cent., id. 109; extent of, in acres, '34. 84; difference of time between the principal towns of, and London, '31. 21; bastards, num- ber of, born in, in 1830, '34. 88; number of, in 1835 and 1837, '38. 192; rental of charities, and income of schools in, '36. 175; edu- cation, proportion per cent. of persons married in the year ended June 1840, who could write, '42. 171; electors, county, number of, in, in 1834 and 1835, 37. 182; excise licenses issued, and pub- lic-houses in, number of (1831), 32. 185; families, number of, in, and how occupied, in 1811, 1821, and 1831, '34. 86, 87; houses, number of, in, in 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831, id. 81, 85; number of, inhabited, unin- habited, and building, in 1841, '42. 107; jurors in, in 1835, 37. 175; lunatics, &c., pauper, pro- portion of, to population, in 1837, 38. 193; marriages, buildings registered for solemnization of (1840), '41. 199; proportion of persons married under the age of twenty-one years, in the year ended June 1840, '42. 171; oc- cupations of persons in (1831), '35. 89; offenders in, and propor- tion of, to population (1837), '39. 90; power-looms, number of, in (1836), 37. 183; RATES: amount of poor and county rates levied
in, in 1826, 29. 197; the same for 127, and account of its ex- penditure, id. 198; amount of poor rate levied in, from March 1827 to March 1828, and expenditure of same, 30. 216; from March 1828 to March 1829, 31. 195; for the year ending 25th March, 1830, 32 184; for year ending 25th March, 1831, 33. 187; expended on the poor, in the year ending Easter 1832, 34. 174; amount levied and expenditure of same, for year ending 25th March, 1833, 35. 189; in the year ending 25th March, 1834, 36. 174; the same in the years ending 25th March,1834, 1836, and 1837, 38. 188; decrease of same in 1837 compared with 1834, il. 190; proportion of pau- pers relieved, to the population of, in 1839 and 1840, 42. 168; SAVINGS BANKS, and friendly and charitable societies, amount of deposits and accounts in (1831), 32. 102; savings banks, average amounts deposited in, and propor- tion of depositors to population of (1835), 37. 72; state of, ou 20th November, 1837, '39. 134; savings banks, friendly societies, and charitable institutions, num- ber of, and of depositors and amount of deposits in, in No- vember, 1836, '38. 193; on 20th November, 1838, 40. 189; on 20th November, 1839, 41. 194; on November 20th, 1840, '42. 166; SCHOOLS, endowed, unendowed, and Sunday-schools in, in 1818, 29. 91; unendowed day-schools in, in 1818 and 1828, id. 93; number of Church of England schools in, and of scholars in same (1832), 33. 121; TAXES: amount of land and assessed taxes of, in 1829, 31. 172; house tax, in- habited houses assessed to, and rental of same, for year ending 5th April, 1830, '32. 106, 107; turnpike trusts, their extent and income in (1834), '35. 193; trusts in, and income and expenditure of same, in 1834, '37. 177; the same, and length of the roads, in
1839, '42. 122; tolls collected on, in 1834 and 1839, id. 118. Worcestershire Society, '30. 159. Wordsworth, his allusion to the ce- landine, '29. 33; his petition in favour of extended copyright, pre- sented, '40. 199. Workhouses, regulations of, '35.157; number ordered by the Poor Law Commissioners, up to 1836, and their average expense, '37. 250, 251; Act for facilitating the con- veyance of (5 and 6 W. IV. c. 69), '36. 130, 137; Act extend- ing provisions of (7 W. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 50), '38. 148. Working classes, progress of educa-
tion amongst, up to 1818, 29. 92. Workington, population of (1821), '29. 82; population of, '33. 60; Harbour Regulation Act, '41. 222; Improvement Act, id. 216. "Works and Days," '32. 47. Worksop, population of, '33. 70.
and Kelham Road Act,
World, creation of the, 28. 49. "World, History of the," '32. 59. World, statistics of the. '29. 69-75. Worle and Kewstoke Road Act, '41. 219.
Worm, Ole, '32. 74.
Wormegay Drainage Act, '38. 209. Worms, in infants, destroyed by salt, '29. 117; deaths from, within the, Bills of Mortality, in 1827, id. 110.
Diet of, '28. 59; edict of, *31. 45. Wormwood Scrubbs, suspension bridge over the canal at, '40. 249. leaved Othonna, 31. 42. Worship, places of, in England and Wales, number of, in 1841, '42. 47.
Worsley, population of, '33. 66. Worsted yarn; see WOOL, WOOL- LENS, &c.
Wort, St. Peter's, 29. 65. Worthing and Broadwater, popula- tion of, '33. 74.
Wortley Inclosure, '34. 203. Wotterstadt, '31. 79; '32.75. Wotton-under-Edge, population of (1821), '29. 82.
of the "Carn Brea Castle," '30. 163; see SHIPWRECKS. Wrecking, and destroying wrecks, punishment for, 1837 (7 W. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 87), '38. 161. Wren, laws of collision, '29. 62.
the, '28. 31, 32; '29. 32; its winter food, '30. 36; golden- crested, 29. 30, 35; willow, id. 35, 39; its rate of flying, id. 40. Wrexham Abbot et Regis, popula tion of, '33. 79. Wright, Edward, '37. 23. Writ of possession, issue of, on failure of an action of ejectment (1 W. IV. c. 70), '31. 166, 167. Writs, must not be delivered to the sheriff or his officer by an attorney, '28. 157.
number of, issued from Mi- chaelmas Term 1832, to the same 1833, '35. 187.
Wuerdle, church building at, '35. 227.
Wurtemburg, a kingdom, 28. 63; '31. 56; kingdom of, its extent, population, sovereign, capital, re- ligion, revenue, debt, and army, in 1828, '29. 70, 71; population and sovereign of (1836), '36. 107; population and territories of, com- prised in the Prussian Commercial League, '42. 213; dowager queen of, dies, '29. 245; Duchess Marie of, dies, '40. 141, 255; king of, arrives, '31. 237. Würzbourg, League of, '31. 47. Wyatt, Mr., his evidence on patents referred to, '30. 130.
Benjamin, dies, '37. 110.
Mr. M. C., architect of the York column, '34. 212; his statue of George III., noticed, '37. 243. Wyatt, Thomas, '31. 70; '32. 59. Wyatville, Mr. Jeffery, knighted, '29. 246.
-Sir Jeffery, dies, '41. 138. Wye and Severn Railway, account of, '37. 87; '41. 62. Wyndham, Major, Court of Inquiry on, 33.231.
Wyndham's Club, '30. 160. Wynford, Lord, creation of, '30. 262; his Bill for preventing frauds upon creditors rejected, '32. 193; his Bill for diminishing expenses of suits rejected, '34. 190. Wynn, C. W. W., Secretary at War, '31. 240; his Bill to repeal the abjuration oath, '32. 186. Wyntown, Andrew of, '31. 68; '32. 59.
Wyre Docks Act, '38. 213.
and Preston Railway and Harbour Act, '36. 209; railway (and harbour), particulars of, '41. 72; account of, '38. 61; '41.72; further account of, id. 90, 91. Wyrley and Essington Canal and
Birmingham Canal Navigation Consolidation Act, '41. 221. Wyttenbach, D., 31. 77; '32. 74.
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