1827.] 



Wales, Scotland, a/id Ireland. 



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Married.] At Swansea, A. Webber, esq., to 

 Miss Caroline Jones. At Tedworth, C. Jrrvis, 

 esq., to- Emma Ullofwdrtb, daughter of T. A, 

 Smith, esq., lord lieutenant of Carnarvon. 



Died.] At Swansea, 83, Mrs. H. Kenning, 

 relict of the late A. Kenning, osq., who, in 1/65, 

 served the office of sheriff of New Hanover. North 

 Carolina, and during the struggle for American 

 independence, with other loyalists, came over to 

 Kna-laii'!. At Pentanolly, D.Reid, esq., fonnc'-ly 

 high s'loriflf for Radnorshire. At Talur.ninojr, 77, 

 Mrs. Oliver, widow of the late T. Oliver, e q., of 

 Rhydoldog. At Tregaron, 90, 3Ir. W. Reca. 



SCOTLAND. 



Mr. Campbell has been re-elected lord rector for 

 Glasgow University, and the inauguration took 

 place November 16. After having taken the oaths, 

 he shortly addressed the students. " He was not 

 in a situation (he said) to be very profuse in ex- 

 pression ; the signal honour which was conferred 

 on him by the entire unanimity of their votes, was 

 one which left more of feeling than of collected 

 thought in his mind. It might be thought natural, 

 at the commencement of another session, that he 

 should advance something in the way of advice, to 

 be of use to them in the furtherance of their stu- 

 dies: the excellent discipline practised in their 

 establishment, however- -which rendered it indis- 

 pensable that both professor and student should 

 fulfil their several responsibilities made such ad- 

 vice unnecessary, There was one point on which 

 he would express himself decidedly. He would 

 pledge himself to the support of their rights and 

 privileges ; and with regard to the petition which 

 he had heard it was their intention to lay before 

 His Majesty's Commissioner for visiting the uni- 

 versities, praying that these ancient privileges 

 might still be respected, he acknowledged his en- 

 tire approval of it, and was ready to present it 

 himself. 



Married.'] At Berneth, Lieut. -Colonel the Hon. 

 Frederick Cathcart, late His Majesty's Minister 

 Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation, 

 and second son of William, Earl Cathcart, K.T., to 

 Miss Jean Macadam, of Craigengillan. 



Died.'] At Muirhouse, near Edinburgh, 81, the 

 Rev. Dr. Davidson, for more than 20 years the 

 senior minister of Edinburgh. At the Manse of 

 Inverary,95, Rev. Dr. Paul Fraser, the father of 

 the Church of Scotland. At Airthney, General Sir 

 Robert Abercrombie.govetnorof Edinburgh Castle, 

 and colonel of the 75th regt. At Monifieth, 103, 

 Mrs. Brown, mother of Provost Brown, Dundee. 



IRELAND. 



The disgraceful outrages recently committed in 

 the county of Tipperary have roused the magis- 

 tracy to active exertion, a meeting having been 

 held at Thurles, to take into consideration the 

 state of the county, the Earl of Llandaff in the 

 chair ; when, after a lengthened discussion, it was 

 the general opinion of the meeting, that a memo- 

 rial should be forwarded to His Excellency the 

 Lord Lieutenant, praying that the Insurrection 

 Act might be again placed on the Statute Book. 

 To shew the necessity of similar meetings in other 

 counties, we could subjoin a list of atrocities, al- 

 most unequalled in the annals of crime, but want 

 of room prevents us ; they are fully elucidated in 

 the Cork, Clonmel, Roscommon, Wexford, Bel- 

 fast, and other papers, and exhibit the country in a 

 state that is really terrible. 



The Report upon Irish Education is not that of 

 the Jive commissioners; it is only that of three of 



M.M. New Seriw. VOL. IV. No. 24. 



them. The two dissentients are Messrs. Foster 

 andGlassford; they maintain, that any departure 

 from the principle upon which the Irish youth 

 have hitherto been educated would be injurious; 

 and they inform us that, " about twenty years ago, 

 the Scriptures were not read in so many as 600 

 schools, while at present they have found their 

 way into above 8,000 schools. After every pos- 

 sible deduction which can be made on account 

 of schools closed, schools from which pupils 

 have been withdrawn, and schools in which 

 the use of the Scriptures is practically ineffi- 

 cient, there will still remain in our view such a 

 general average of improvement in this respect, as 

 the most sanguine could scarcely have anticipated. 

 The improvement in other points of inferior mo- 

 ment is not less striking: 1,370 schoolmasters and 

 mistresses, of a very superior description, have 

 been sent forth by the Kildare Place Society alone, 

 and about 280 more are supplied in each succeed- 

 ing year. Much more than a million of books, of a 

 moral and instructive character, have been issued 

 from their repository, to take place of the immoral 

 and seditious publications which were before too 

 common ; and the number of books at the same 

 time supplied by various other societies, indepen- 

 dent of the Scriptures, has probably been not much 

 inferior in amount." 

 Cost of the Church by Law established inlreland. 



Per Ann. 



Tithe income of 1,250 beneficed clergy- 

 men, arising from 2,436 parishes ...880,000 

 Glebe lands of said clergymen, exceed- 

 ing 120,000 English acres 120,000 



Glebe houses of ditto, assuming them 

 to be 1,600 in 2,436 parishes, and 

 only worth .30 a year a piece .... 48,000 

 Income of 22 bishops, in fines and rents 



from one million of English acres . . 222,000 

 Church rates from only 2,000 out of 



2,436 parishes 575,000 



Profits of the" parsons' freehold," 



arising from graves, tombs, &c 100,000 



Profits of ditto, arising from herbage, 



&c 2,fOO 



Marriage licences and church fees .. 12,000 



Ministers' money in Dublin 10,000 



Consistory courts 30,000 



Gaol chaplaincies and inspectorships 5,000 

 Chaplaincies of other public institu- 

 tions 2,500 



Military chaplaincies 2,100 



Vicars choral 25,000 



Masterships of the royal foundations 10,000 

 Profits arising from other schoosl.... 10,000 

 Fellowships, parsonages, and other 

 sources of wealth connected with 



Trinity College 30,000 



First fruits expenditure (according to 



the average since 1816) 53,98G 



Grants to biblical institutions 99,600 



Total cost of Church of England-? - 9 ~ q c Sfi 

 ism in Ireland \ ' 



Died.~\ At Connaught, Major T. W. Poppleton ; 

 he served in India, and had the charge of the cap- 

 tive Nabob of Oude; he crossed the Desert, passed 

 up the Red Sea. and joined Sir R. Abercrombie in 

 Egypt; he was afterwards, as captain in the 53d, 

 placed about the person of Napoleon, at St. He- 

 lena. In Killarney, 76, Countess de Severac, sister 

 to the Earl of Kenmare. 



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