1829.
An Act (9 Geo. IV., cap. 117) recites that “whereas the said towns of Manchester and Salford are respectively very large and populous, and form two townships separate and distinct from each other in all matters of local arrangement; and soon after the passing of the first recited act (32 Geo, 3) the commissioners thereby appointed, divided, and formed two distinct bodies, and from that time have so continued to act and put the first recited act in force for each town separately and respectively, and the rates authorised by the said first recited act to be assessed and raised have been and now are raised by separate and distinct assessments within each of the said towns, and applied exclusively to the uses of the town in which they were and are respectively assessed and raised; and whereas the said towns of Manchester and Salford, and more particularly the former, having greatly increased since the passing of the said first recited
act, and being still increasing in trade, population, and extent of buildings, cannot conveniently be regulated by one body of commissioners acting separately as aforesaid.” The police of the town was therefore divided, and persons qualified as prescribed by the 32nd Geo. III. were constituted commissioners for executing that act in Salford alone, by the name of “the
commissioners for better cleaning, lighting, watching, and regulating the town of Salford.” At the same time the constitution of the Manchester body was re-modelled.
— The Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary opened, January.
— The New Mechanics’ Institution, Brazennose Street, commenced March 25.
— The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Spring Gardens, established April 30.
— Messrs. Sharp and Roberts invent the self-acting mule, for the spinning of cotton.
— Serious riots, through commercial distress, May 5. The weaving factories of Mr. T. Harbottle, Messrs. Twiss, and Mr. James Guest, were attacked and their contents entirely destroyed; that of Messrs. Parker was burnt down. Many provision shops were forcibly entered on the same day.
— High floods in the Irwell, August 27.
— Dauntesey Hulme, Esq, a gentleman who will long be remembered for his extensive contributions to the various charities of the town, died April 27, aged 85. During his life he presented the sum of £10,000 to the Infirmary, and at his death another £10,000.
--- Thomas Rawlinson, poet. died.
— Miss Frances Hall, of King Street, died January 4, in her 84th year. This venerable lady was the last survivor of a family which, for more than a century, had been distinguished in this town for eminent professional talents, as well as private and public worth. At the period of 1745, the family took an active part on the side of Charles Edward; and when that personage resided at Ancoats Hall, the year previous to his public entry into Manchester, he was a frequent visitor at the residence of the Halls. In return for the attention bestowed, he presented them with an original portrait of his father, painted by Belle, the French artist, and which was disposed of, along with other curious Jacobite relies, on the death of this lady. She left the following munificent bequests, viz.: to the Manchester Infirmary, £11,000; House of Recovery, £11,000; Lying-in-Hospital, £11,000, and the Ladies’ Jubilee School, £11,000. She is commemorated by an elegant monument in Byrom’s Chapel of the Collegiate Church, erected in 1834.
— The Manchester Phrenological Society, Faulkner Street, instituted.
— St. George’s Sunday School, Oldham Road (formerly a Dissenting chapel), converted to its present use.
— St. Andrew’s Church, Travis Street, Ancoats, was founded September 14, and consecrated October 6, 1831. It was erected by the Church Building Commissioners, at an expense of £14,000.
— Mr. John Leigh Bradbury, calico printer, died January 4. He was a very ingenious mechanic, to whom the country is indebted for many very useful inventions, among which was a mode of printing calicoes both sides alike, another for silk throwing, and another for the present mode of manufacturing pins.
— Thomas Harrison, Esq., architect, died March 29, at Chester. He was a native of Richmond, in Yorkshire. He designed and executed the Exchange and Theatre Royal in this town.
— A dinner was given to Mr. Peel in Manchester. There were 500 persons present. October 6.
— A deputation from Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and other towns, had an interview with the Duke of Wellington and other ministers, for the purpose of advocating free trade to India and China, May 9.
— Accident at Hyde, near Manchester. A meeting of workmen being held in a room at a publichouse, the floor suddenly gave way, and 250 people fell with such force as to go through the floor beneath them into the cellar. Thirty were killed, and many others wounded, April 1.
— Charlestown (Pendleton) Independent Sabbath School commenced in a cottage in Ashton Street, September; and in 1830, the school in Shemwell Street was opened.

1830.
Salford Police Commissioners incorporated, March 18.
— Twelve persons drowned near the railway bridge, in the Irwell, by the upsetting of a boat, April 24.
— The first public meeting to promote the cause of temperance in Manchester, May 12. The moderation pledge abandoned February 26, 1835, and a new society formed.
— Mr. Charles Robinson found shot in Oxford Road, May 20, on his returning home from
Manchester.
— The Manchester and Liverpool Railway opened September 15, in the presence of the Duke of Wellington, attended by a great number of nobility and gentry, and amidst the loud greetings of many thousands of spectators. The Right Hon. William Huskisson was unfortunately killed at Parkside, near Newton-le-Willows, which threw a gloom over the festivities of the day. The cost of the whole undertaking, up to June, 1830, was £820,000. The proprietary is distributed as follows: —

The whole expenditure of the company up to December 31, 1838, was £1,443,897 19s. 6d.
— Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall, Grosvenor Square, commenced October 13, and finished October 13, 1831.
— The number of yards of goods printed in Great Britain was 130,053,520; the amount of capital in the trade was £56,000,000, employing 330,400 persons in factories alone.
— Duty reduced on printed cottons.
— St. Thomas’s Sunday School, Ardwick, built
— St. Thomas’s Church, Pendleton, founded September 23, and consecrated October 7, 1831.
— “History of the Foundations in Manchester; of Christ’s College, Cheetham’s Hospital, and the Free Grammar School.” 3vols. 4to. By S. Hibbert, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. Manchester: published by Agnew and Zanetti, 1830.
--- The Manchester Gentlemen’s Glee Club established.
— Mr. Edward Hobson, of this town, died September 7. Mr. Hobson though in humble life, had, by perseverance, aided by good natural talents, become a thoroughly skilful botanist, mineralogist, geologist, and entomologist. His “Musci Britannici” (of which, from the nature and extent of the work a very few copies were issued) stands a recognised monument of his soundness in that particular and intricate portion of the science of botany, as the general reference made to the work by Drs. Hooker and Taylor will testify. Upon other subjects of natural history he was in correspondence with many eminent authors, and his investigations and opinions were much respected.
— The Infirmary (called the Manchester General Infirmary). Sir Robert Peel procured the
patronage of the king, as a peculiar mark of the royal favour, and since that period it has been called the “Royal Infirmary.”
— Sir Robert Peel left to the Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum in Manchester, and to the Lying-in Hospital of Salford. £100 each.
— Christ Church, Acton Square, Salford, founded May 28; consecrated November 1831. The patronage is vested in trustees. The first rector was the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., father of the present rector, the Rev. T. A. Stowell, M.A.
— Foreign Library originated in St. Ann’s Street It has about 8,000 volumes.
— Harrop’s Manchester Mercury, which commenced March 3, 1752, expired December 28, after an existence of 79 years.

1830-1
The Manchester and Leeds Railway projected.

1831.
The Voice of the People, No. 1, January 1, printed by John Hampson.
— Mr. Thomas Ashton, of Werneth, murdered, January 3.
— Benjamin Heywood, Esq., of Manchester, returned as one of the representatives of the county, May 10.
— Petitions for representatives in Parliament, January 20.
— Christ Church Sunday School, Hulme Street, erected.
— The Bazaar in Deansgate erected, and opened March 22. It was pulled down in 1872 to make way for the Deansgate improvements; and upon the site magnificent shops have been erected, now in the occupation of Messrs. Kendal, Milne, and Co.
— Jonathan Dade and Isaac Holland apprehended for forging Bank of England notes. They were two of an extensive gang that had been carrying on their operations for many years.
— The Manchester Choral Society established.
— L. Schawbe, Esq., procures a patent for certain processes and apparatus for preparing and beaming yarns of cotton, linen, &c. so that any design, device, etc., may be preserved when woven into cloth. January 22. 1831.
— A turn-out of spinners, occasioned by low wages and scarcity of provisions.
— Moses Ferneley was executed at- Lancaster for the murder of his step-son, at Hulme. His body was sent to the Manchester Infirmary for dissection. March 14.
— Ashton Worrall and William Worrall were executed at Lancaster for the murder of Sarah McLellon, at Failsworth, March 14.
— The first concert of the Manchester Choral Society was held in the Exchange dining room, March 30.
— The Suspension Bridge, at Broughton, gave way at the time the 60th Rifle Corps were passing over it, forty or fifty of whom were precipitated into the river. Fortunately no lives were lost, although six of the men were very seriously hurt.
— The Botanical and Horticultural Gardens, Old Trafford, opened June 21. They cover a space of sixteen acres in extent.
— The widening of Cross Street, intended eventually to be continued to Market Street,
commenced. A plot of 31 yards 8 inches sold for £187 6s. 8d.
— Payment from the gas profits to the Improvement Committee was £6,908 15s. 2d. June.
— Cemetery, in Irwell Street, Salford, opened.
— Hulme Dispensary established, March 28.
— The Medical Vapour Bath Institution opened, July 28.
— The Manchester School of Medicine and Surgery, Pine Street, by Mr. Turner, opened. To Manchester belongs the honour of having established the first provincial school of medicine and surgery.
— School of Anatomy opened.
— The Chorlton-upon-Medlock Dispensary opened, October 13.
— Concert Hall, Lower Mosley Street, opened.
— By the fourth Parliamentary census Manchester and Salford contained 182,812 persons; including the several townships and suburbs of Manchester, the population was 232,578.
— The coronation of William IV. celebrated by a splendid procession of the various trades, and the Sunday school children of all denominations, amounting to upwards of 36,000; in the evening there were displays of fireworks. Although the day was rather unfavourable, everything passed off with great good humour. September 8.
— The learned and celebrated Hindoo Ram Mohun Roy visited Manchester, and was shown through various establishments, April 13.
— Robert Bowker, who had been confined for many weeks in the New Bailey, for feloniously making use of money, to the extent of several thousand pounds, belonging to the Churchwardens, was discharged on bail amounting to the sum of £800. June.
— The well-known eccentric Robert Bradbury, a celebrated clown, died July 28. He was originally a cabinetmaker at Liverpool, and, under the management of Mr. Riley; the author of “The Itinerant,” then the lessee of the Liverpool Theatre, made his debut as clown. He was possessed of prodigious strength, and some of his feats were more calculated to terrify than amuse his auditors.
— A dinner given to Mr., Wilson Patten and Lord Stanley, at the Exchange Room, June 17.
--- Toll Lane, leading from Deansgate into St. Ann’s Square, widened.
— Messrs. Fairbairn and Lillies’ foundry and millwright establishment burnt down, August 6. Damage, £8,000.
— Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief, reviewed upon Kersal Moor the various troops stationed in this district, amounting to upwards of 3,000 men. He was accompanied by Generals Sir H. Bouverie, Macdonald, and Sir Willoughby Gordon. August 11.
— The Rothsay Castle steamer was lost on Dutchman’s Bank, on her passage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, and out of 105 persons only 21 were saved. Many families in this town and neighbourhood had to mourn the loss of their relatives.
— St. Andrew’s Church, Travis Street, erected and consecrated, October 6.
— Messrs. Mather and Booth’s factory, at Patricroft, was burned down, December 25. Damage,
£15,000.
— Scotch Church, St. Peter’s Square, founded.
— Dispensary established for Salford and Pendleton by subscription.

1832.
Thomas C. Hewes, an eminent mechanic, died January 25.
— St. Patrick’s Catholic Chapel, Oldham Road, opened February 29.
— The Baptist Chapel, George’s Street, opened.
— The fronts of the General Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum cased with stone.
— Mr. Goodier and six of his workmen killed by the explosion of a steam boiler, at Pool Fold, March 23.
— Manchester, with its adjoining townships, becomes a borough, and acquires the right of sending two members to Parliament by the passing of the Reform Bill, June 7.
— The passing of the Reform Bill, and the enfranchisement of Manchester and Salford, celebrated by a magnificent procession of the authorities, trade societies, &c., August 9. Mr. Charles Green ascends in a balloon.
— The Asiatic cholera breaks out in Manchester, May 17; the first person attacked in Manchester was James Palfreyman, of Dolefield, Somerset Street, Deansgate. Riot at one of the Cholera Hospitals, September 3.
— The duty on cotton produced £600,000.
— Messrs. Bancks and Co. publish their large plan of Manchester and Salford, January.
— Messrs. Tatlock and Love’s factory, in Spear Street, was burnt down, January 2. Damage