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daughter of T. Stodel, epq.. Consul of the United 

 States of America, at Bordeaux. At Rome, and 

 afterwards at the Chapel of Lord Burgbersh, at 

 Florence, Count Ranghiasci Brancaleoni, to Sarah 

 Matilda, daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 

 bart. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Sidney, New South Wales, Commodore Sir 

 James Brisbane, late commander-in-chief in the 

 East Indies. At New York, 73, the Hon. Rufus 

 King, late Ambassador from the United States to 

 this country ; and Henry Cruger, esq. ; he bad 

 been representative in Parliament with Edmund 

 Burke, for Bristol, from 1/74 to 1/30. On the 

 Lake of Geneva, J. B. Story, csq., of Woodbo- 

 rough-hall, Nottingham- At Naples, the Marchio- 



ness of Abercorn, sister to the Earl of Arran. At 

 Tunis, her Highness Lilla Fatima, consort of the 

 Bey; three days previous to her death she had 

 been delivered of a prince, her fourteenth child ; 

 at her funeral 1,000 slaves received their liberty. 

 Lieut. -Col. R. C. Garnham, on b'oard the Fairlie 

 on his passage from Calcutta to the Cape; he was 

 formerly Resident at the court of one of the na- 

 tive princes. At Aleppo, of the plague, Hon. H. 

 Anson, brother of Lord Anson. At Falmouth, 

 Jamaica, 140,RebeccaFury, a black woman, whose 

 age has been correctly traeed from the deeds of 

 her owners ; she retained her reason to the last. 

 At Jersey, Lieut.-Col. Campbell, of the 58th 

 regt. At Chateau-dun, P. Herv, esq., the founder 

 of the National Benevolent Institution. At Ver- 

 sailles, J. E. Lord, esq., of Tupton-hall, Derby. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



The sixth annual exhibition of the Northumber> 

 land Institution for promoting the Fine Arts has 

 been recently opened, and has displayed a variety 

 of good pictures. 



The Newcastle Sunday School Union Society 

 held its anniversary meeting on Whit-Tuesday; 

 when upwards of 3,000 children, and 300 teachers 

 were present. By the report, it appeared that 

 the society has under its fostering care 117 

 schools, 12,818 children, taught by 2,161 gratui- 

 tous teachers! !! 



Friday, June 8, theHylton Jolliffe steam-packet, 

 arrived at Newcastle from London, being her first 

 voyage. She left the metropolis on Wednesday 

 morning at 7, and reached Shields at 5 on Friday 

 morning. She has two engines of 100 horse- 

 power, and is 300 tons burthen. 



The railway from Witton to Stockton, a distance 

 of 25 miles, was formed for the conveyance of 

 coals, and such has been its effect in lowering the 

 expence of carriage, that coals, which formerly 

 sold at 18s. per ton, in Stockton, are now sold 

 there for 8s. 6d. The railway passes through 

 Darlington, which is at a distance of 12 miles 

 from Stockton, and two coaches now travel the 

 road daily, conveying great numbers of passengers, 

 at the rate of a penny per mile each. These ve- 

 hicles are the bodies of old six-inside coaches, 

 placed upon new and lower wheels, fitted for th# 

 railway : they are drawn by a single horse, which 

 often draws 20 to 30 passengers, at the rate of 10 

 miles an hour, with quite as much ease as a horse 

 moves in a gig; indeed the traces are generally 

 loose, and his principal effort is to maintain his 

 speed. 



On the 2/th of May, a thunder-storm visited 

 Newcastle, and the eJectric fluid struck the house 

 of Mr. Swan, shattering the chimney, and passing 

 (being conducted by the bell-wires) along the edge 

 of the ceiling and a bed room beneath, leaving 

 traces of its fiery progress in the tinged papering 

 of the room. There were twelve persons in the 

 house, none of whom were hurt. The lightning 

 also struck a goose dead, which was swimming 

 with others at the White-mare Pool, between New- 



castle and Sunderland ; its under jaw was split, 

 and it was burnt down the belly. 



A new Roman Catholic Chapel was opened at 

 Durham on the 31st of May; and one at Darling- 

 ton on the 29th. 



Married.'] At Cheter-le-street, E. Wylam, esq., 

 to Miss Bird. At Newcastle, Mr.Tulloch,to Miss 

 Hirst. At St. Helen's, Auckland, Mr. J. Quart, 

 to Miss Routledge. 



Died.] At Sunderland, 101, W. Geddes. At 

 Northallerton, Miss P. Gabrielli. At Alnwick, 

 92, Mrs. Wilson. At Glanton, 88, Mrs. B. Wake. 

 At Newcastle, 82, J. Thompson, esq. At Gates- 

 head, 76, Mrs. Randyll. At Esh Loude, Rev. 

 J. Yates, who for 40 years bad been a zealous 

 minister of the Roman Catholic religion. At 

 Birch's Nook, 101, Mr. J. Green. At Ayton, near 

 Stokesley, the Rev. W. Deason. 



YORKSHIRE. 



As an undoubted proof of the improvement which 

 has recently taken place in the Sheffield trade, we 

 are enabled to state, that the applications to the 

 overseers for relief, have for some time past been 

 rapidly decreasing, and in a late week only eight 

 were applied for ; whereas for some time past the 

 average was eighty per week. We are likewise 

 happy to state that trade is improving at Leeds 

 also. 



As two persons were lately walking along the 

 shores of the Humber, in the township of Welwick, 

 south-west of the church, they discovered, at the 

 foot of the clay cliff, about 60 yards from the foot 

 of the present bank, which is not a modern one, 

 and 13 inches under the general surface, some- 

 thing like the corner of a wooden chest or coffin, 

 which the tides had recently laid bare. Curiosity 

 induced them, with much labour, to uncover it, 

 when it proved to be a coffin of strong oak plank, 

 which had been originally two inches think, well 

 joined together, battened across both above and 

 below in three places, and made double at the 

 ends. It was a perfect parallelogram or long 

 square, measuring 7 feet 1 inch long, and 1 foot 

 10 inches wide within a space which the corpse 

 seems to have fully occupied, as the bones of the 

 skeleton extended very near the whole length. 

 The skull (which is in the possession of a profes- 

 sional gentleman at Patrington), is large, and re- 

 markably prominent about the eyebrows. About a 

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