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Died.] At l'ovi,;gi'.on, 65, Lieut. -Gen. Minet. 

 70, F.ev. M. Wiseman, curate of Avelcy; on 

 Christmas Day he was reading tiie communion 

 service, when be fell in front of the altar and ex- 

 pired. Rev. R. Lewis, 50 years rector of Ching- 

 ford, and 57 joint lecturer of St. John's, Hack- 

 ney. 



CORNWALL. 



The Chairman, in his charge to the grand jury, 

 at the Counfy Sessions, congratulated them on 

 the calendar being unusually light. The Magis- 

 trates declared, at the close of the Sessions, that 

 in consequence of the frequent failure of Benefit 

 Clubs throughout the county, they will not enrol 

 the articles of any new club, unless the principles 

 on which they are founded are sanctioned by a 

 respectable actuary. 



Died.'] At St. Agnes, 71, Rev. S. Evans ; for 

 upwards of 40 years a preacher as a Wesleyan 

 Methodist. At Launceston, 99, Mr. Collins. 



WALES. 



A Benefit and Annuitant Society for Females 

 has lately been established at Cardiff, under the 

 patronage of the ladies of its environs. The rules 

 are similar to those of the Cardiff Annuitant So- 

 ciety for men. 



From a statement of the Cardiff Savings' Bank, 

 it appears that .15,686. 18s. 2d. is at present due 

 to the depositors. 



At the General Annual Meeting of the Trustees 

 and Managers of the Pembrokeshire and Haver- 

 fordwest Saving's Bank, held Dec. 13, it appeared 

 by their ninth report, that .24,495. 12s. 8d. was 

 the amount received up to Nov. 20, 1827 ; and 

 that the number of depositors were 6/7 ; besides 

 10 friendly societies. The report states, that, 

 from its commencement, no persons bave been 

 allowed to become depositors who were either 

 worth .500, or whose annual income exceeded 

 .100. 



Cardiff bridge has given way to the force of 

 the floods occasioned by the late heavy rains. 



A Musical Festival has lately taken place at 

 Wrexbam, on the occasion of opening the splendid 

 new organ in Wrexham Church. It was well at- 

 tended by the inhabitants of the northern parts of 

 the principality. 



The wife of David Evans, a carrier to Mana- 

 fon, Montgomeryshire has been completely re- 

 stored from a violent uterine hemorrhage by the 

 operation of transfusion of blood. Mr. Cle- 

 ment, jun., the surgeon in attendance, seeing the 

 poor woman's danger (pulsation having been im- 

 perceptible some time, and her extremities quite 

 cold), prevailed on a young man named Evan 

 Jones, from Llanrwst, to permit him to open a 

 vein in his arm, whence by means of Weis's pa- 

 tent syringe and tubes (the tubes kept warm, to 

 prevent congelation) he injected a few ounces of 

 blood into the woman's veins. The operation 

 was successful ; the patient gradually recovered 

 strength ; and yesterday was able to sit up in 

 bed. She is upwards of 40 years of age, and the 

 mother of a large family. Shrewsbury Chro- 

 nicle. 



Died.'] At Carmarthen, R. Waters, esq. At 

 St. Bride's-hill, Milford.70, C. A. Phillips, esq. 

 At Harbrandston, 94, Mr. W. Field. At Peny- 

 graig, near Aberystwith, 9), Mrs. Pugh. 7i,T. 

 Whitchurst, esq., of Penyclawdd, Denbigh. 81, 

 J. Bassett, esq., many years a magistrate for 

 Glamorganshire. 



SCOTLAND. 



The foundation stone of a Royal Exchange was 

 recently laid at Glasgow. 



The beneficial consequences to the Highlands 

 of the removal of the obstructions to the prosperity 

 of the Caledonian Canal begin to manifest them- 

 selves. The heavy and impolitic dues, which 

 amounted almost to a prohibition of the use of 

 that great and useful work, have been reduced 

 one half. The reduced dues will come into ope- 

 ration from and after the 1st of January. We 

 may now, therefore, venture to anticipate a con- 

 siderable and increasing resort of shipping to this 

 commodious inland navigation ; from the benefits 

 of which our seafaring people have been hitherto 

 almost excluded, by the exaction of dues, which 

 led them to prefer the perilous and circuitous 

 voyage by the Penrjand rFirth, to the safe and 

 short cut through the Great Glen of Scotland. 

 We are not without hopes, too, that some impor- 

 tant and beneficial alterations in the line of the 

 great Highland road will be ere long effected. 



The quantity of cotton consumed in Scotland 

 during the year 1827, was about 1,4(10 bags a 

 week ; in 1826, it was only 1,080 the result being 

 320 bags per week more in favour of the improve- 

 ment in trade. 



At the Edinburgh Agricultural Meeting, re- 

 cently held, at which above 300 noblemen and 

 gentlemen attended ; Sir John Sinclair addressed 

 the party after breakfast, and informed them, that 

 a great part of the bread which they had been 

 eating was composed chiefly of potatoe flour, and 

 that if the public would be contented with such 

 bread, Britain would never require a bushel of 

 foreign grain. 



Died.'] At Both well-castle, 80, Archibald Lord 

 Douglas, of Douglas, lord-lieutenant of the county 

 of Forfar. At Dumfries, Old Deacon Johnston, 

 who lived in the reigns of four kings, and was a 

 lad of 17 when Prince Charles and his Highlanders 

 visited Dumfries. He was father of the Seven 

 Incorporations; and the inscription on his coffin 

 set forth that a whole century had rolled over his 

 head. 



IRELAND. 



A general meeting of the Catholics, unconnected 

 with the Catholic Association, was held at Dub- 

 lin on the 26th ult , at winch it was resolved to 

 call upon the different parishes throughout Ire- 

 land, to assemble all on the same day to petition 

 Parliament. The day fixed on was the 6tli of 

 January, when, after mass in all the Roman 

 Catholic Chapels, it was intended that simulta- 

 neous meetings should be held, at which the 

 priests were to preside, and petitions for eman- 

 cipation be presented and signed. It was deter- 

 mined that a petition, similar to that which pro- 

 duced the remarkable discussion in the session of 

 1825-6, between Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. George- 

 Dawson, on the subject of the Treaty of Limerick, 

 should be intrusted to the latter gentleman for 

 presentation in the Commons, and to the Earl of 

 Kingston in the House of Lords, 



Married.'] At Dublin, M. Conolly, esq., to 

 Anna Maria, daughter of Sir N. O'Donnel, bart., 

 and niece to Lord Annesley. 



Died.] 70, Hon. F. H. Hutchinson, brother to 

 Earl Donoughmore, and father to the member for 

 Tipperary. Major Conroy, drowned by the up- 

 setting of a boat on a lake near Ballyshannon. 

 At Clarisford-house, Killaloe, the Right Rev. A. 

 Arhuthnot, Bishop of Killaloe. 



