1828.] 



Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 



559 



Died.'} At Saltash, Mrs. de Courcy, relict of 

 the Hon. Admiral Michael de Convey. Rev. J. 

 Williams, vicar of Probus. At Truro, 85, Mrs. 

 Jane Whitaker, relict of the late Rev. J. Whitaker, 

 the historian of Manchester. 



WALES. 



Amount of the Poor Rates levied in Wales, in 

 the year ending March 1827 Anglesey, ^17,5.97 ; 

 Brecon, .20,613; Cardigan, .19,615; Carmar- 

 then, ^36,578 ; Carnarvon, .23,380 ; Denbigh, 

 .39,265 ; Flint, .22,468 ; Glamorgan, .39,486 ; 

 Merioneth, .16,691 ; Montgomery, .36,276 ; 

 Pembroke, .28,211 ; Radnor, .14,985. 



At Denbigh assizes, 4 prisoners were recorded 

 for death, 4 transported, and a few imprisoned. 

 At Brecon, 4 recorded for death, and a few im- 

 prisoned. At Cardigan, 2 transported for life. 



A grant of .24,000 has been obtained for the 

 erection of a pier at Hobb's Point, near Pembroke 

 Royal Dock-yard. 



Married.'] At Abergavenny, Mr. E. Smith to 

 Miss Watkins. 



Died.'} At Swansea, Mr. Wilson ; Mr. Perry. 

 At Llwyncus, Brecon, Mr. Isaac B. Jones ; he 

 was the successful candidate for the prize offered 

 by the London Cymreigddion Society, in 1822, on 

 " Diolchgarwch.' 1 At Dinas Mowddy, Merioneth, 

 99, Morgan Jones ; in the prime of life, though 

 only 4 feet 6 inches high, he would carry heavier 

 loads, walk more miles, mow more hay, and reap 

 more corn in a day than most men in the county. 

 At Vachwen Tregynon, Mrs. Stavkey. At the 

 Mumbles, near Swansea, 103, Mrs. Anne Ste- 

 phens. 



SCOTLAND. 



April 14, a meeting was held in the Town- 

 house of Haddington, of the noblemen, free- 

 holders, &c. &c., of the county, to take into con- 

 sideration sundry bills now before Parliament. 

 The first brought before the meeting was the bill 

 for passing and removal of Scotch vagrants from 

 England to the nearest seaport in Scotland. It 

 was considered objectionable, in so far as it went 

 to throw a burden on the border counties, which, 

 however, would be obviated, if paupers were car- 

 ried by sea to that port in Scotland nearest their 

 place of settlement ; also, that it should be left to 

 the option of magistrates to send paupers by sea 

 or land as circumstances might determine ; that 

 the expense to which parishes were put by the 

 transmission should be defrayed by a county rate. 

 It was stated, that while care was taken to send 

 Scotch vagrants out of England, there was no 

 provision for sending English and Irish vagrants 

 out of Scotland, the latter of whom were a 

 great nuisance in some parts of the country. 

 A committee was appointed to correspond 

 with Lord John Hay, and other Scotch mem- 

 bers, on the subject. The meeting then proceed- 

 ed to consider the bill for extending the pe- 

 riod for conferring a settlement on paupers in 

 Scotland; the object of which is to prevent per- 

 sons acquiring a settlement in a shorter period 

 than seven years' industrial residence. The 

 principle of this bill seemed to meet the approba- 

 tion of the meeting, it being considered a deside- 

 ratum to have the question of settlement fixed by 

 statute. 



A number of gentlemen, friends to Mrs. Dewar, 

 residing at Collinsburgh, Fife, recently met at her 



with the old lady and her two daughters the one 

 76, and the other 73. There were three of her 

 neighbours present, whose ages joined to Mrs. 

 Dewar's amounted to 3/4. Mrs. Dewar, in the 

 course of the evening, mentioned that she remem- 

 bered fifteen of Prince Charles's Highlanders 

 being quartered in her father's house ; that " they 

 were a' bonny lads, and weel behaved, and did 

 nae harm, excepting that one o' themjtook awa' a 

 horse o' the Laird's o' Kilconquhar's, wha was 

 weel able to spare it ;" and her daughters re- 

 marked, that " they wadna* wonder but folk wad 

 be thinking them auld if their mother was awa'." 



Married.} At Edinburgh, R. Marsham, esq., 

 to Lady Carmichael Anstruther, widow of the 

 late Sir J. C. Anstruther ; at the same time, J. 

 Anstruther, esq., son of Col. B. Anstruther, to 

 Marian, daughter of the late Sir J. Anstruther, 

 of Anstruther, Fifeshire, bart. 



Died.} At Edinburgh, Miss Murray, daughter 

 of the late Lord Henderland. At Berwick, 61, 

 Mr. J. Reid. 



IRELAND. 



The Society for the Improvement of Ireland 

 met at the Mansion-house, Dublin, lately, to con- 

 sider a series of propositions submitted by Dr. 

 Grattan, one of which had been before adopted, 

 pointing out the drainage of waste lands, the 

 construction of harbours for the encouragement 

 of fisheries, and the extension of inland naviga- 

 tion, as the best means of relieving the country. 

 A resolution approving of raising a fund by lot- 

 tery for the latter purpose, was unanimously 

 agreed to ; as also another, declaring that it 

 would be for the advantage of the people of Ire- 

 land to assess themselves for the purpose of em- 

 ploying or relieving the poor. Resolutions, em- 

 bracing several minor details connected with this 

 proposition, were ordered to stand over for future 

 consideration. A letter from Mr. George Home, 

 on the subject of bettering the condition of the 

 poor, by colonizing them on waste lands, was or- 

 dered to be referred to the committee on agricul- 

 ture, about to be formed. Lord Cloncurry gave 

 notice, that he would move the appointment.of a 

 committee to wait on the Hon. W. Lamb, to 

 obtain his aid in procuring a general enclosure 

 bill. 



Out of fourteen persons apprehended for the 

 murder of Daniel Mara, two have been convicted 

 and executed as principals two have been sen- 

 tenced, and are to be executed on Saturday, as 

 accessaries before the fact one was convicted 

 yesterday for conspiracy to murder, and will this 

 day receive sentence and six have pleaded guilty. 

 Clonmel Herald, April 9. 



It is stated that Agar, Archbishop of Dublin, 

 died worth half a million ! that Porter, Bishop of 

 Clogher, left 250,000/. behind him ! that Stuart, 

 the late Primate of Ireland, drew 840,000/. from 

 the country!! In addition to this be it known, 

 that the See of Armagh is worth 25.000/. per an- 

 num !!! That Derry is valued at 30.000/., with a 

 beneficial interest of 5,0001. a year to three or four 

 persons, out of the church lands!!! and yet, not- 

 withstanding all this, the Protestants in Ireland 

 are about one to ten to the whole population, and 

 no provision whatever is made for the Poor UI 



Married.} A. Saunderson, esq., M.P., of 

 Castle Saunderson, Cavan, to Sarah Johanna, 



V/ciatlC OclUllUcJ. suiJj v*vcuij fcV *- * irwMwi 



house, to celebrate her entry into the 100th year sister to H. Maxwell, esq., M.P., and niece of 

 of her age. They spent a most happy evening Lords Cariick and Faraham. 



