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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, TN AND NEAR LONDON, ETC. 



CHRONOLOGY. 



August 21. A powder mill blew upon Hounslow 

 Heath, to which two of the men fell a sacrifice. 



Total amount of stock at present standing in 

 the names of the Commissioners on behalf of 

 Savings' Banks is .7,833,359 three per cents., and 

 .6,903,229 three and a half per cents. 



27. One criminal executed at the Old Bailey, 

 for a highway robbery. 



H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence sworn in Lord 

 High Steward of Windsor, when a grand entertain- 

 ment was given on the occasion by the mayor and 

 corporation of that borough. 



September 6.- The Lord High Admiral presented 

 Earl Northesk with an elegant sword, in appro- 

 bation of fhe regulations adopted for the reception 

 of H.R.H. at his recent official visit to Plymouth, 



7. Exhumation at St. Martin's Church-yard 

 commenced, preparatory to the improvements on 

 the north side of the Strand. 



9. H.M's. shipMaidstone arrived at Portsmouth, 

 from Africa, with the intelligence that the Ashan- 

 tees evince a disposition to conclude a treaty of 

 peace with the English. 



12. Talacre Hall, Flintshire, destroyed by fire ; 

 .70,000 had been recently spent in its erection. 



13. The sessions commenced at the Old Bailey; 

 the calendar announcing 457 prisoners for trial. 



17. Mary Wittenback executed at the Old Bai- 

 ley for the murder of her husband. 



Mr. Owen gave an account of the proceed- 

 ings of his Society in America, at the Co-operative 

 Society, Red-lion-square. 



21. H.R. H. the Lord High Admiral arrived at 

 Chatham, and inspected the dock -yard, marines, 

 &c. ; and 



22. The George the Fourth, of 120 guns, was 

 launched in presence of H. R. H. and the Duchess 

 of Clarence, who christened it. This is the largest 

 ship ever launched in England. 



The sessions at the Old Bailey ended, when 

 39 prisoners were condemned to death; 156 were 

 transported, and 143 ordered for imprisonment!!! 



MARRIAGES. 



At Mary-le-bone, Rev. P. Still, to Miss Aime 

 Hughs. C. Heneage, esq.-, nephew of Lord Yar- 

 borough.to Louisa,third daughter of Lord Greaves, 

 and niece to the Marquis of Anglesea At Little 

 Pardon, J. Bland, esq., to Miss M. Hemming. At 

 St. James's Church, E. L. Bulwer, esq., to Miss 

 Wheeler. Captain G. Todd, 3d Dragoon Guards, 

 to Mary Jane, daughter of Sir Egerton Brydges, 

 Bart. At St. James's, P. Burgess, esq., to Miss 

 .C. Green, second daughter of Major C. Green. 

 At Marylebone, D. Maclean, esq., second son of 



Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Maclean, bart., to Harriet, 

 daughter of General Maitland. At Lambeth, H. 

 B.Leeson, esq., to Miss Sutton. At St. George's, 

 Hanover-square, Hubert de Burgh, esq., to Mari- 

 anne, daughter of Admiral and Lady E.Tolle- 

 mache. J.C.Colquhoun, esq., to the Hon. Henrietta 

 Maria Powys, eldest daughter of the late Lord 

 Lilford. 



DEATHS. 



In Hertford-street, May Fair, John, Earl of 

 Stradbroke, 78. In New Milman-street, R. Bick- 

 nell, esq., 81. Jane Gordon, youngest daughter of 

 Sir Murray Maxwell. In Torrington-square, R. 

 Orme, esq., late clerk of the crown, at Madras. 

 Mary, wife of Mr. Alderman Waithman, M.P. At 

 Hammersmith, Lord Archibald Hamilton, brother 

 to the Duke of Hamilton. At East Ham, the Rev. 

 Dr.Honltain, 80, 50 years Vicar of East Ham. 

 J. Germes, esq,, many years secretary to Lord Ex- 

 mouth. Mr. Bampton, of Salisbury-square. B. 

 Follet, esq., 78, Inner Temple. In Upper Ber- 

 keley-street, Mrs. C. Drummond, 83. In Ludgate- 

 street, J. Mawman, esq., 67. At Kensington Gore, 

 J. Mair, esq., 84. Mr. John Beard, 78, late of 

 Chelsea Hospital. Amabel, youngest daughter of 

 Lord Grantham. In King-street, Portman-square, 

 Jacqueline Charlotte, Countess de Hompesch. S. 

 Hough, esq., 86, of Tavistock- street. Ugo Foscolo, 

 an Italian gentleman, well known to the whole 

 circle of English literati'. At Netting Hill, Mrs. 

 Vade, daughter of the Hon. R.Walpole, brother to 

 the first Earl of Orford. The Right Hon. Nicholas 

 Lord Viscount Bangor, in the 7Sthyear of his age. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 



At Paris, at the English Ambassador's chapel, J. 

 Rayment, esq., to Miss Letitia Winifred Hauten. 

 At Florence, Mile. Henriette Guynemer, to the 

 Chevalier Carlo du Tremoull, of Pisa. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Paris, M.Manuel, the distinguished liberal, 

 who was expelled from the Chamber of Deputies. 

 At Cambray, Miss Boden. At Jamaica, Rev. 

 Dr. Towton, and Mary Bridge, 111 ; she retained 

 her faculties to the last, seeing her fourth gene- 

 ration ; Rev. H. Jenkins (on ship board), returning 

 from Jamaica. In Paris, W. Young, esq., secretary 

 to the Lords Commissioners for Redemption of the 

 Land Tax. At Chandernagore, M. Lewis, esq., 

 brother to Admiral Lewis. At Santarem, Portu- 

 gal, Capt. E. Hill, 63d regt. At Chatillon-sur- 

 Loire, Sir A. Bellingham, bart. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



We feel much pleasure in being able to state, 

 that the wool-combers of Darlington and Bishop- 



Auckland are in full employment, with a small ad- 

 vance of wages. 



The two east wings of Sunderland barracks are 

 pulled down ; and, although it is about thirty years 



