1827.] 



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The Dutch galiot Trend* Sadskende, Bache, 

 wentdown, after having applied in vain to an East 

 Indiaman that was passing. Luckily a boat from 

 Breyher was near and saved the crew, and took 

 them to St. Mary's, Scilly. 



Married,'} At Talland, Mr. Perrot to Miss 

 Soady. 



Died.] At Woodhouse, 72, J. Handford, esq. At 

 St. Hilary, 102, G. Harris, sexton of that parish. 

 AtHolyhead, Mr. Pascoe, commander of the Ar- 

 row Packet.. At Penzance, 80, W. Baker, esq. 

 At Bodmin, 82, Mr. Chappie, for more than half a 

 century governor of the county prison ; A. Ham- 

 bley, esq. At Truro, Miss Frances Daubuz. 



WALES. 



The Rev. E. Davies, author of the " Celtic Re- 

 searches," &c., has presented 100 volumes, prin- 

 cipally on Celtic literature, to the library of St. 

 David's College, Lampeter. 



Nearly .80. were received by the productions 

 given by the ladies at Llandovery Bazaar, which is 

 to be appropriated to the benefit of the school 

 there. 



At Pontypool there has never been a regular 

 post-office, although there are 30,000 inhabitants 

 within three miles of the town; but, on September 

 29, a postmaster was appointed, and in future, a 

 regular mail-coach will leave Abergavenny at 

 7 A.M., and pass through Pontypool to Newport in 

 time for the Milford Mail. 



Thanks have been voted, at Carmarthen, to Mr. 

 Nash, for his plans of Sir Thomas Picton's monu- 

 ment, the new church, and other buildings, gra- 

 tuitously furnished by that gentleman to the 

 town. 



A service of plate has been presented to G. 

 Meaves, esq., of Dolly's-hall, by the hundred of 

 Llanidloes, for his useful 'and impartial sendees as 

 an upright magistrate. A public dinnerbells 

 ringing all da) an illumination at night and 

 Mr. M. chaired home by the populace, were the 

 result. 



By the recent Report of the Bridgend Savings' 

 Bank, signed by the Right Hon. Bir J. Nicholl, 

 treasurer, it appears that the sums invested with 

 the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na- 

 tional Debt (including interest) amounted, Sept. 

 20, to .20,761. 5s., to which are to be added 

 .419. 9s. in the hands of the treasurer, and 

 .62. 12s. 7|d. in those of the actuary, making alto 

 gether.21,243. 6s. 7d. 



Married.] D. Davies, esq., of Froodvale to 

 Miss Morgan. T. Davies, esq. of Lllangattock, to 

 Maria Selina, second daughter of Sir C. Willough- 

 by.bart. At Llangadock. C. Bishop, esq., to Miss 

 Gwinf'e. At Llansaintfread, Rev. D. Parry to 

 Miss Herbert. At Crickhowell, Mr. Howe to Mis* 

 Price. 



Died.] 7?, C. Kenrick, esq., of Cefn-y-Gader- 

 liouse. At Claesmont, Charlotte, 5th daughter of 

 Sir J. Morris, bavt. At Llandilo, 106, Mrs. A. 

 Roderick. .Mrs. Llewellyn, of Llangathen. Mrs. 

 E. Davies, -of Llwynygarreg. At Llanfair, 64, 

 Rev. E. Lewis. At Denbigh, 84, Mrs. Holland. 

 At Soughton, Mrs. Conway. At Swansea, Rev. D. 

 Phillips. 



SCOTLAND. 



There were no two trades that suffered more 

 severely during the late commercial distress than 

 tanning and weaving. The weaving is very brisk 

 at present, every hand is employed, and goods are 

 on the advance ; but the wages are still so low, 



that very few art abla to liquidate any portion of 

 the debt they contracted during the dulness. Slno 

 the middle of April, the tanning has been in a 

 state of slow but progressive improvement, and at 

 present most of the old and established concerns 

 are so thronged that they find it difficult to get 

 their orders completed in due time. The unique 

 toast, "Cheap meal and dear leather," is a fa- 

 vourite with this body, and hence the intelligence 

 of the breaking off of the treaty between Buenos 

 Ayres and Brazil was heard with pleasure, as it 

 had the effect of raising coarse hides a penny a 

 pound, and increasing the previous vivacity of the 

 business. The society in Edinburgh has riot been 

 called on by a single "tramp" for upwards of a 

 month a circumstance which indicates that the 

 country tan-works have their share of the pros- 

 perity of the business. 



On the 18th of September a shoal of whales ap- 

 pearing in the offing, near Fitful Head, in Shet- 

 land, the fishermen immediately collected with 

 their boats, and succeeded in driving 27 of these 

 valuable animals on shore in Quendal Bay. One 

 of them, measured by the light-keepers of Sum - 

 burgh Head, was found to be 74 feet in length, and 

 17 feet between the forks or tips of the tail. 



Died.] At Traquair-house, Peebleshire, 82, the 

 Earl of Traquair. 



IRELAND. 



It becomes our melancholy duty to announce 

 another murder in addition to the many horrible 

 ones that have already been perpetrated in this 

 unfortunate county (Tipperary), and which is un- 

 happily connected with the horrible murder of the 

 late Mr. Chadwick. It was rumoured that imme- 

 diately after his conviction, and while leading 

 from the dock, the guilty Grace said, "that before 

 May-day, every person that had a hand in his cou- 

 viction would be shot." If he made this declara- 

 tion, his prediction is being fulfilled. As three 

 brothers of Phillip Mara, who had the honesty 

 and manliness to prosecute one of the murderers 

 of the late Mr. Chadwick, and an apprentice, were 

 returning about seven o'clock in the evening, from 

 their work (being masons employed in building the 

 ominous police station at Rathcannon), they 

 were way-laid by twelve armed ruffians, not at all 

 disguised, who fired on them from behind a ditch, 

 between the place where Mr. Chadwick was mur- 

 dered, and the cross-roads at Bournacroosna. The 

 shots did not take effect. Two of the brothers im- 

 mediately ran off in the direction of Holy Cross, 

 and the apprentice made off, and pursued his way 

 to the intended barrack. Unfortunately, Daniel 

 Mara, the third brother, took refuge in the house 

 of one Kennedy, whick was close by. The mur- 

 derous ruffians having seen him enter, immediate- 

 ly proceeded to the house, smashed the windows, 

 and broke open the door. As soon as they entered 

 theyieized their unfortunate victim, in the midst 

 of Kennedy's family, and shot him dead thus ef- 

 fecting their horrid and murderous purpose in the 

 face of a whole family, and in the midst of a vil- 

 lage ! The murder of this unfortunate, but honest 

 man, was effected almost in the centre of three 

 police stations, viz. at Rathcannon, Brasford, and 

 Holy Cross. The audacity of the murderers was 

 only to be equalled by their sanguinary dispo- 

 sitions. 



