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tunate : some of them took as many as 40,000 pil- 

 chards in one night. There were landed one 

 morning from the St. Ives' boats about 200 hogs- 

 heads of fish. It is several years since pilchards 

 have appeared so early in St.lves' Bay ; it is stated 

 that great shoals of fish have been seen to the 

 eastward, ; and it is fully expected that should the 

 weather prove moderately favourable, a consider- 

 able quantity will be secured during the ensuing 

 spring tides ; the pilchards already taken are ex- 

 ceedingly fine. 



Married.'] At St. Germans, W. Porter, esq., to 

 Miss Humbly. 



Died.'] At Falmouth, 72, J. Harris, esq. At 

 Bodmin, 61, Mrs. Commins. At Truro, 87, Mrs. 

 Taunton.At St. Neot, Capt. Sibley. 



WALES. 



The Goliah, an 84 gun ship, was launched at 

 Pembroke Dock, July 23. In consequence of 

 II. R. H. the Duchess of Clarence being present 

 (accompanying the Lord High Admiral) the name 

 was changed, and christened by Her Royal High- 

 ness " The Clarence." Upwards of 20,000 persons 

 were present. 



It appears by the last report of the expenditure 

 for the jear ending June 1, 1827, that the " Swan- 

 sea Infirmary for warm and cold sea-water bath- 

 ing, and for the relief of the sick and lame poor, 

 from every part ef the kingdom," have relieved 

 upwards of 10,000 patients since its establish- 

 ment, and that its expenses of last year were 

 .623. 11s. O^d. 



At the annual meeting of the " Glamorganshire 

 General Agricultural Society," prizes were award- 

 ed to two labourers for having brought up their 

 families without parish aid one had 11, the other 

 6 children. Prizes were likewise awarded to seve- 

 ral for length of service 3 for 14 years 2 for 20 

 1 for 29, and one for 49 years ! 



Married.] Rev. V. W. O. Jones, of Nerqui3 

 (Flint) to Mis Anne Elizabeth Ward. At Lam- 



Shey, near Pembroke, W. E. Parry, esq., to Miss 

 ohnson. At Llanelly, Rev. E Morris, to Mrs. 

 Williams. At Swansea, Rev. H. S. Pocklington, 

 to Miss A. G. Smyth, only daughter of the late 

 Major-Gen. Smyth, Lieut. -Gov. of New Bruns- 

 wick. At Lampeter, J. H. Thomas, esq., to Jane 

 Isabella, third daughter of Sir G. G. Williams, 

 bart., of Llwynywormwood. At Carmarthen, C. 

 Smallridge, esq., to Miss Thomas. 



Died.] At Williamgfield (Carmarthen;, 81, R. 

 Price, esq., formerly major in the 56th regt, ; he 

 was at the storming of the Havannah, 1762 ; and 

 at Gibraltar (1/83) during its siege; he was also 

 not an unsuccessful wooer of the muses. At Car- 

 narvon^. Evans, esq., deputy prothonotary for the 

 North Wales circuit. At Carew Parsonage, Pem- 

 broke, 66, W. Francis, esq. 



SCOTLAND. 



The Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal 

 have published their annual report. The rate of 

 duty was doubled two years ago, but there has 

 not been a proportional increase of the produce. 

 It is found that ship-masters will rather encounter 

 the storms of Cape Wrath, than pay 2s. 7d. per 

 ton for a passage tl r >ugh the canal. The money 

 expended on the works is, .973,2/1., and as much 

 is required to complete them as will make the 

 amount up to a million. The dues have yielded 

 rather less than .3,000 per annum, while the 

 annual charge for management and keeping the 

 canal iu order exceeds .4,000!!! 



There Is at present a very great demand at 

 Glasgow for weavers of every description, and, 

 in consequence the carriers to different places 

 around that town feel the difference materially. 

 Some of them who, during the late dulness, found 

 one cart more than sufficient, now can scarcely 

 carry the work required with two, and double the 

 quantity of money continues to be sent to the 

 agents in the different towns and villages. 



The herring fishing in Lochfine, this season, has 

 been all along full of promise. Fishers who had 

 given up the trade for some years back, on ac- 

 count of the difficulty of keeping a wife and family 

 at all respectable upon hope and potatoes, have 

 this year fitted up their old boats, purchased new 

 nets, and are getting on wonderfully, although a 

 little behind hand at first. 



Married.'] At Edinburgh, the Right Hon. D. 

 Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, to Miss C. C. Smythe, 

 daughter of the Hon. D. Smythe. J. Ramsay, 

 esq., of Barra, Aberdeen, to Mrs. F. G. Campbell, 

 daughter of General Patrick Duff. 



Died] At Woodside, Roxburghshire, 94, Lady 

 Diana Scott, widow of W. Scott, esq., of Harden, 

 and daughter of the late Earl of Marchmont. 

 Dr. J. Millar; he superintended the new edition 

 of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and designed and 

 edited the Encyclopedia Edensis. At Edinburgh, 

 107, J. McDonald, (father to the pipe-maker to the 

 Highland Society of London) ; he retained pos- 

 session of all his faculties to his dissolution. He 

 was the identical person that met Flora Mac- 

 donald and the Pretender, Prince Charles Stuart, 

 in their great distress, in the Highlands, as two 

 ladies, and conducted them to the " Virgin Well" 

 to assuage their parched thirst, and afterwards 

 escorted them to a gentleman's house where they 

 received protection, and he to his surprise and 

 admiration discovered who they were ; on which 

 he ever after used to dilate with enthusiastic satis- 

 faction and delight. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Sir 

 Henry Moncrief Wellwood, bart. 



The following extract from a Scotch paper will 

 at once prove the necessity of something being 

 done for the relief of the unfortunate Poor of this 

 very unfortunate country: " The emigration of 

 the poor destitute and miserable inhabitants of 

 Ireland into this quarter of the country still con- 

 tinues without abatement. On Sunday morning 

 two steam-boats brought over about 150 each; 

 and it is ascertained, that during the last week 

 about 1,800 persons of this description were added 

 to the population of this city and neighbourhood. 

 They are all, or very nearly all, mere labourers 

 of the very lowest class, and profess to have come 

 over in search of employment in cutting down 

 the harvest. When informed that there will be 

 no harvest-work in this quarter for several 

 weeks, and that there are already more than a 

 sufficiency of hands for this sort of employment, 

 many of them expressed a determination to find 

 their way to the northern counties of England, 

 in expectation of the harvest being earlier begun 

 there. They say that they have no fear of get- 

 ting work from the farmers, as they will work 

 for whatever wages are offered them, and that 

 such is the state of misery that they were in at 

 home, that they cannot be worse go where they 

 will. It is pretty well ascertained that, during 

 the last six weeks, the number of labourers who 

 have arrived from Ireland is about 12,000." Glas- 

 gow Chron. 



