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Incidents, Marriages, 



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the late W. Innes, esq., of Jamaica, and daughter 

 of the late Sir. \V. Chambers, bart. R. T. Po- 

 cock, esq., lieutenant in the Madras Cavalry, and 



son of Sir G. Pocock, bait. At Marseilles, Dr. A. 

 Solomon, formerly of Birmingham. At Charen- 

 ton, near Paris, Mr. T. Finch, engineer, 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



The Assembly Room, built by the Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland for the inhabitants of Alnwick and 

 environs, was opened October 19, with the Ses- 

 sions Ball, and was attended by all the gentry of 

 the vicinity. On the Duke and Duchess entering, 

 the music played Chevy Chace. The room is the 

 length of that at Newcastle, and 24 feet high, and 

 is adorned with three magnificent chandeliers. 



A superb piece of plate, consisting of a splendid 

 candelabra, of exquisite workmanship, has been 

 presented, by the freeholders of Northumberland, 

 to M. Bell, esq., M.P., in estimation of his public 

 character. 



A meeting of the ship-owners of Newcastle was 

 held November 7, to take into consideration the 

 increasing depression of the British shipping in- 

 terest generally, and of Newcastle in particular ; 

 when several resolutions were unanimouslypassed, 

 expressive of calling; upon His Majesty's govern- 

 ment to attend to their complaints ; and proving 

 the actual incapability of British ships competing 

 with the untaxed foreigner. " Surely (baid the 

 principal speaker on this occasion) the foundation 

 of the mighty fabric of our naval and national 

 greatness will not, for a baseless and heartless 

 theory, be suffered to sink into irremediable ruin, 

 for want of that fostering care to which it is so 

 justly entitled." 



A meeting of merchants and traders has been 

 held at Newcastle, when a memorial was agreed to 

 be presented to the Lords of the Treasury, for 

 repealing that part of the stamp act which requires 

 stamp receipts for sums under .20. 



A fine healthy boy, about 5 years of age, the son 

 of Mr. Adamson, of North Shields, died lately, 

 from eating the roots of a flower commonly called 

 monk's-wood. 



Lately, in Newcastle, a man, who had under- 

 gone variolous vaccination, was affected with the 

 small-pox, in the confluent. All his neighbours 

 and children had undergone vaccination, except 

 one little girl, who sickened and died ; a young 

 man, who only passed the door on his way to and 

 from work, who had not been vaccinated, con- 

 veyed the effluvia to his own home, where his sis- 

 ter, who had not been vaccinated, sickened and 

 died. 



Mr. Lindesay, of Durham, has laid before the 

 Committee of British Merchants and Ship-owners 

 of London and Liverpool, a method of raising all 

 kinds of goods into their lofty warehouses, by 

 means of water, instead of the cranes now in 

 use. 



A male skeleton was found lately at Hayston- 

 hill, near Houghton-le-spring, in a lime quarry. 

 It was at a depth of about two feet from the sur- 

 face, and was doubled up together in a manner 

 which leaves no doubt that a murder had been 

 committed. 



At the Durham Martinmas Hiring, few servants 

 were hired, in consequence of their asking an ad- 

 vance in wages, which the farmers could not afford 

 to give. 



Married.~\ At Houghton-le-spring, by licence, 

 T. Simm, to Catherine Arthur, both of Easington- 

 lane. Before the ceremony took place, the intend- 

 ed bride undressed herself in a pew of the church, 

 and the bridegroom elect put a chemise over her, 

 and this was the only article of dress she wore at 

 her marriage. This indecency originated in the 

 silly idea, that a husband who marries a wife 

 without property or clothes is exempt from the 

 payment of her previous debts. At Allendale, Rev. 

 W. Walton to Miss Jane Crawhail. At Newcastle, 

 J. Baiubridde, ej., to Miss Woodhouse ; Mr. W. 

 Henderson to Mrs. Hogg. At Gretna-hall, J. E. 

 White, esq., to Miss Birch. At Tanfield, Mr. B. 

 Henderson to Miss Watson. At Funderland, Mr. 

 Sherlocke to Miss Dixon ; Mr. L. Haddock to Miss 

 Proudfoot. At St. Peter's in Allendale, Mr. W. 

 Walton to Miss Jane Crawland. At Stanhope, 

 Mr. J. Barnfather to Mrs Coatsworth. At Walls- 

 end, G. Hawkes, esq., to Miss Wright. 



Died.] At Kingswood, 83, J. Johnson, of the 

 Society of Friends. At Durham, Mr. J. Wil'is ; 

 Miss Herron. At Elwick, 76, the widow e, T. 

 Younghusband, esq. At North Shields, 90, Mrs. 

 Ditchburn. At Heighington, Mrs. Elizabeth Jep- 

 son. At Easington, Mrs. Thompson. At Darling- 

 ton, 97, J. Lamb. At Fenham-hall, Mrs. Clarke ; 

 the Rev. T. Mollard; 61, M. Morrison, esq At 

 Chappie-house, near Newcastle, Mrs. Davison. At 

 Newcastle, Mrs. Jane Clarke. 



YORKSHIRE. 



The foundation stone of the Museum of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society, was laid by the 

 Archbishop, October 24, on the ancient site of St. 

 Mary's Abbey (granted by the crown), on the Ma- 

 nor-shore, near York. 



A public meeting has been held at Leeds Court- 

 house, in behalf of "instruction to be given to a 

 destitute population of one of the most ancient 

 colonies of this realm the Colony of Newfound- 

 land ;'* when a collection was made, and resolu- 

 tions entered into, for the benefit of the Newfound- 

 land Society. 



The Huddersfield Bazaar, under the protection 

 of its lady patronesses, has produced the sum of 

 .454. 19s., for the benefit of the National Schools 

 and has thus not only relieved them from debt, 

 but formed a surplus fund for their future sup- 

 port. 



Application will be made at the approaching 

 Session of Parliament, for an act to erect a bridge 

 over the Aire, to communicate Hunslet with the 

 south-east part of Leeds. 



The Proprietors of the Aire and dilder Naviga- 

 tion, intend to make application to Parliament next 

 session, for powers to enable them to complete 

 their long contemplated improvements up to Leeds 

 and Waketield. The privileges of a port have been 

 lately extended to Goole ; and the intention with 



