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



Deeemtier 25. Rev. M. Fletcher prearhed his 

 Christinas Day Sermon, in Finslmry Chapel, to 

 little children ; 28 Sunday Schools attended, con- 

 taining upwards of 4,000 children, besides teachers 

 and visitors, exceeding 500 ! 



26. The Chanticleer sloop, returned from the 

 Mediterranean, paid off at Portsmouth, and com- 

 missioned, to be fitted for a scientific voyage to- 

 wards the South Pole. Commander H. Foster, 

 and Lieut. T. H. Austin, who accompanied Cap- 

 tain Parry in his recent attempt to proceed to the 

 North Pole, and Lieut. E. N. Kendall, one of the 

 officers employed in Captain Franklin's arctic land 

 expedition, appointed to her. 



Intelligence arrived of the Ambassadors of 

 England, France, and Russia having taken their 

 departure, unmolested, from Constantinople, on 

 the 4th and 8th of December, 1827. 



28. The Marquis of Wellesley arrived from 

 Ireland, having resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of 

 that country. 



30 His Roval Highness the Infant Don Mi- 

 guel, of Portugal, landed at Greenwich Hospital 

 from His Majesty's Yacht, which had conveyed 

 H.R.H from Calais. H.R.H. proceeded to Lon- 

 don immediately. 



January 9. The Portuguese gentlemen of Lon- 

 don presented Don Miguel a gold medal, expres- 

 sive of his visit to England. 



10. Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey. 



12. The water of the Thames again forced its 

 way into the Tunnel, and rose through it to the 

 height of high water. Six unfortunate persons 

 belonging to the works lost their lives. 



13. His Royal Highness Don Miguel went to 

 Windsor, and took leave of His Majesty previous 

 to his departure from England. 



14. Parliament again prorogued to Jan. 29, on 

 account of the resignation and dissolution of the 

 ministry, 



16. The Sessions ended at the Old Bailey, 

 when 20 received sentence of death, 65 were 

 transported, and upwards of 50 ordered for im- 

 prisonment. 



A French Theatre opened at the English 

 Opera House, in the Strand, regularly licensed by 

 the King's Lord Chamberlain. 



MARRIAGES. 



At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. T. 

 Cooke to Jane, eldest daughter to the Hon. C. 

 Finch. At Hanover-square Church, E. Mills, 

 esq., to Mrs H. Murray. At Mary-le-bone. G. G. 

 Wyatville, B.A.,to Miss A. S. Philips, of Barba- 

 does. At St. Luke's, Old-street, W. E.Bird, esq., 

 to Miss Buck. Albert de Mierre, esq., to Miss 

 A. M. Bovill At Islington, Mr. N. Priant to 

 Miss Anne Bell. 



DEATHS. 



In Bedford-square, M. Nolan, esq., chief justice 

 of the Brecon circuit. R. Woodhouse, esq., plu> 

 mian professor of astronomy, Cambridge. In 

 Lincoln's-inn-Fields, W. D. Bayly, esq., barrister, 

 well known on the western circuit. At Clapham, 

 Mr. Holland, the principal acting partner in the 

 house of Messrs. Baring Brothers. In Constitu- 

 tion-row, 80, Mr. J. Collyer, associate engraver 

 of the Royal Academy 41 yeais. Mr. S. Jones, 

 author of several literary works. At Pimlico, 

 73, Capt. J. Yelland ; he was present at the battle 

 of Copenhagen in the Monarch. 73, J. Scatcherd, 

 esq., of Ave Maria-lane. At Chelsea, Mr. J. Scott j 

 he ranked at the head of his profession as an 

 animal engraver. At Pentonville, Mr. J. Hurst, of 

 Waterloo-place. At Kentish Town, 69, D. Moore, 

 esq., of Lincoln's-inn. At Kennington, 81, R. 

 Burton, esq. At Wandsworth. 83, Rev. J. Bar- 

 wis. At Tottenham, 70, T. Costellow, esq. In 

 Manchester-square, H.T.V. Hylton, esq. ; he had 

 but recently recovered possession of his ancestors' 

 property, the ancient Norman Barons de Hylton, 

 Chateau d'Offranville, in the forest of Arc, Nor- 

 mandy. At Holloway, 95, Mrs. Groves. At Ful- 

 ham, Mrs. Robinson. In Hanover-terrace, Re- 

 gent 's-park, H. Drummond, esq. In Nottingham- 

 terrace, R. Butler, esq. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 



At Boulogne, Captain Webb to Emilj*, daughter 

 of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Lake. At the Bri- 

 tish Ambassador's, Paris, James, son of General 

 Sir J. Duff, to Eliza Charlotte, daughter of Sir 

 G. B. Prescott, bart. In Paris, Dr. W. English 

 to the Right Hon. Lady Maria Gordon, of Perth- 

 castle. At the British Ambassador's, Hague, 

 Rev. W. Elton to Lucy Caroline, third daughter 

 ofC.A. Elton, esq., and grand-daughter to Sir 

 A. Elton, bart. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Naples. Rev. J. Burgess, brother-in-law to 

 the late Duke of St. Alban's. At Madagascar, 

 Lieut. H. Cole, aide-de-camp toLieut.-general the 

 Hon. Sir G. L. Cole, and nephew to Lieut. -general 

 Sir W. Cockkurn, bart. At Brussels, General Sir 

 G. S. Brown. At Colombo, Mrs. Clough. At 

 Biolokosky, Poland, 70, the celebrated Colonel 

 Von Massonbach. At Madrid, in great poverty, 

 the celebrated sculptor Alvarez At Sidney, New 

 South Wales, D'Arcy Wentworth, esq. At Na- 

 ples^, Cardinal Ruffo. Drowned off Jersey, by 

 the wreck of the sloop Fanny, Lord Harley, eldest 

 son of the Earl of Oxford. On the Continent, 34, 

 Elizabeth, wife of H. Stracey, esq., son of Sir 

 E. Stracey, bart. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND, DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



W. Haslewood, M.D., is elected Physician Of 

 the Academy at Bishopwearmouth. 

 The sum in the hands of the Commissioners 



for the Reduction of the National Debt, &c., 

 amounted, on the 20th November last, to 

 .31,589. 



A public monument is to be erected to the me- 

 mory of the late Rev. John Smith, Vicar of New- 



