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member to parliament, and each city not 

 so sharing, the population of which in 

 1821 exceeded 8,000." 



13. Chancellor of Exchequer said in 

 House of Commons that his Majesty's 

 ministers were determined, whenever 

 they had the power to do so, to abolish 

 offices which had no duty attached to 

 them. " Thank God !" he exclaimed, 

 " the time at which this country could be 

 governed by patronage is past" ! ! ! 



15. Seventh Anniversary of London 

 Mechanics' Institution held, and very 

 numerously attended. The Lord Mayor 

 was present, and lit. Hon .R. Wilmot 

 Horton promised the Institution a Series 

 of lectures on statistics and political 

 economy, especially as affecting the con- 

 dition and interests of the operative and 

 labouring classes. 



At a meeting of the Freeholders of 

 Middlesex held' at Hackney, resolu- 

 tions were unanimously passed on the 

 alarming state of the country, distress 

 of the working classes, oppressive 

 weight of taxation, defective state of the 

 representation of the people in Parlia- 

 ment, and petitions founded thereon 

 were voted to both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment. Mr. Byng, member for the coun- 

 ty, said, " sinecures should be abolished, 

 and the children of the aristocracy should 

 not be any longer quartered on the pub- 

 lic." 



16. Two convicts executed at Execu- 

 tion Dock for piracy. 



. Sessions terminated at the Old 

 Bailey, when 1 5 pi*isoners received sen- 

 tence of death : a considerable number 

 were transported and imprisoned for va- 

 rious periods. 



. The Duke of Northumberland in- 

 troduced to the King at the levee, on 

 returning from the Lord Lieutenancy 

 of Ireland. 



22. Lecture delivered at the Mecha- 

 nics' Institution, London, by the Rt. 

 Hon. It. AVilmot Horton, on the state of 

 the Country and its Taxation. He was 

 attended by several noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen. 



23. Parliament adjourned to Feb. 3, 

 1831. 



. News arrived from Paris of the 

 condemnation of the Ministers of the 

 late King Charles X. to perpetual im- 

 prisonment, 



. Papers ordered in House of Com- 



mons for explanation of the Sinecures, 

 unmerited Pensions, &c. &c. 



MARRIAGES. 



Hon. and Rev. John Vernon (brother 

 to Lord Vernon), to Frances Barbara, 

 second daughter of T. Duncombe, esq 

 H. W. Chichester, esq., to Miss Isabella 

 Manners Sutton, daughter of the late 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. Patrick 

 Persse Fitzpatrick, esq., commissioner 

 of Excise in Ireland, to Margaret, third 

 daughter of J. Godmar, esq. Lord 

 Louth, to Miss Anna Maria Roche; 

 they were married at Sto. George's, Ha- 

 nover-square, by the Bishop ot London, 

 and previously, according to the Roman 

 Catholic church, by Prince Charles 

 Abbe de Broglie. Earl of Jermyn, el- 

 dest son of the Marquis of Bristol, to 

 Lady C. Manners, daughter of the Duke 

 of Rutland. Hon. G. Anson, second son 

 of late Lord Anson, to Hon. Isabella 

 Elizabeth Annabella, third daughter of 

 fhe late Lord Forrester. J. B. Tre- 

 vanion, esq. to Susannah, second daugh- 

 ter of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart Rev. 

 C. H. John Mildmay, brother to Sir H. 

 St. J. Mildmay, Bart., to Hon. Caroline 

 Waldegrave, youngest daughter of the 

 late Admiral Lord Badstock. Capt. A. 

 Wathen, to Lady Elizabeth Jane Leslie, 

 youngest daughter of the Earl of Rothes. 



DEATHS. 



At his seat at Castle Bernard, the Earl 

 of Bandon. Admiral Robert Montagu. 

 Alderman Crowder, late Lord Mayor 

 of London ; and J. Peshlier Crowder, 

 esq., his brother, two days previous. 

 Lord Henley, 70. Hon. Hugh Elliot, 

 80, formerly governor of Madras ; he 

 has left nineteen children. The Dow- 

 ager Lady Lushington. Amelia, widow 

 of the late Admiral Sir R. Calder. 

 Rear Admiral Stiles, 7^. Lieut. Col. 

 Barton, 2d Life Guards. Very Rev. 

 E. Mellish, Rector of East Tuddenham, 

 Vicar of Honingham, and Dean of Here- 

 ford. At Misterton, R. Astley, esq. 87. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 

 At Rome, His Holiness Francois Xa- 

 vier Castiglione, Pope Pius VIII. At 

 Paris, Mr. Benjamin Constant, 65, 

 member of the Chamber of Deputies. 

 At Nice, Mrs. Kelly, of Castle Kelly; 

 and Sir Robert Williams, Bart., M.P. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. At a nu- 

 merous and highly respebtable meeting 

 of the inhabitants of NeAvcastle-upon- 

 Tyne and its vicinity, held in the Guild- 

 hall, December 21st, the Mayor in the 

 Chair, it was Resolved, amongst other 



resolutions " That to the imperfect 

 state of the representation are mainly 

 to be ascribed the excessive evils with 

 which the country is afflicted ; among 

 which we may enumerate unjust mo- 

 nopolies oppressive and vexatious laws 



