384 
A melancholy and fatal accident tuok 
place the week before last at Dowlas iron- 
works, near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorgan- 
shire, by the bursting of a steam-engine 
boiler (a crown or round one of 34 ‘feet 
diameter) the top of which, not less than 
five toms weight, was blown to the height 
of about 70 feet, and fell with tremendous 
force upon the roof of the building, bury- 
ing in its ruinsaH the workmen who were 
under, one of whom was killed on the spot; 
seven have since died, and three or four 
others are so sertously injured that their 
recovery is.considered ¢oubtful.—Shrewsbury 
Chronicle. 
. Ancient Relic.— About a fortnight since, 
some workmen employed in the improve- 
ments carrying on at Sandywell Park, the 
seat of W. Lawrence, esq., dug up, at some 
distance from the surface, a very curious 
relic of antiquity—being evidently the head 
of a ‘ bwyelt-arvan,”’ or ancient British bat- 
tle-axe. It is about five inches in length, 
one and a half in breadth in the centre, 
but upwards of three inches in the sweep of 
the axe; and of nearly half an inch thick- 
ness at the most solid part. It retains the 
marks of rude carving, and the broad end 
slopes down to a thin sharp edge. 
Mayried.|. In Glamorganshire, T. W. 
Booker, esq-, of Pentych, to Jane Anne, 
only daughter of the late J, Coghlan, esq.— 
F. R. Lee, esq., of Barnstaple, Devonshire, 
to Harriet Eves, eldest daughter of Dr. Ex- 
ton, of Peterchurch, Herefordshire. — W- 
Powell, esq., of Monmouth, to Mary So- 
phia, third daughter of J. L. Baron, esq., 
of Usk, Monmouthshire.—R. Philip, eld- 
est son of R. Tyrwhitt, esq., of Nantyr-hall, 
Denbighshire, Recorder of Chester, to Ca- 
therine Wigly, daughter of H. St. John, esq., 
of Hornsey.—D. Canton, esq., of Lawren- 
ny, Pembrokeshire, to Mary, youngest 
daughter of the late J. Phelps, esq-, of Cres~ 
well Quay. 
Died.] Tat Glasbury House; Radnorshire, 
Mrs, B. Hughes, 79.—At Abergavenny, 
Martha,.wife, of the late Capt. R. Saunders, 
R.N., of Pitchcot, Buckinghamshire, 76.— 
At Brecknoek, the Rev. D. ‘Williams, LL.B. 
82. 
SCOTLAND. 
Hawick School of Arts.—On the 16th ult. 
Mr. Wilson, a.m., from the present insti- 
tution in Edinburgh, concluded his course 
of Lectures on the Elements of Physical 
Science.” These Lectures have been attend- 
ed throughout by upwards of two hundred 
individuals, chiefly journeymen, tradesmen, 
and apprentices, who have evinced a zeal in 
the acquisition of scientific knowledge, 
equally honorable to themselves and grati- 
fying to the founders and directors of the 
institution. 
~ Aberdeen.—A grant of £2,000 has been 
received from Government, for the repairs 
of King’s College, Aberdeen. The Duke 
of Gordon, the Chancellor, has “subscribed 
£400; the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord 
Scotland—Ireland. 
{ Nov. 1, 
Rector, thas subscribed £250, and this ex- 
ample has been liberally followed by the 
resident members of the University. 
Married.) At Gretna Green, C, Vaughan, 
esq., of Dublin, to Emily, only daughter 
and heiress tothe late Capt. J. Coleridge, 
R.N.. A property of upwards of £20,000, 
accumulated by her late father in the West 
Indies, was one of the. bride’s slightest at- 
tractions.— At Riccarton House, W. Kaye, 
esq., Middle Temple, to Mary Cecilia, 
eldest daughter of James Gibson Craig, esq., 
of Riccarton, Mid-Lothian.— At Mintiaac. 
the Rev. J. Wood, m.a., to Annabella, 
second daughter ef Capt. Bryden.— At Con- 
tent, Mr. J. Gibson, lately farmer in Auchin- 
loch parish, to Mrs. A. Meikle, of Ayr. 
The bride has attained the age of 73, and 
the bridegroom 82.— At Guernsey, J. Cock- 
burn, esq., of Scotland, to Mary Louisa, 
eldest daughter of the late W. Corbin,, esq., 
and grand-daughter of the late N. Corbyn, 
es 
rt Died.J—At Gastonni, in Greece, Lord C. 
Murray, youngest son of the Duke of Athol. 
This excellent and high-spirited young man 
was a volunteer in the glorious cause of the 
Greeks. Not many months ago he left Eng- 
land to assist in the regeneration of that illus- 
trious people. Next to that of Lord Byron, 
his loss will be the greatest that Greece has’ 
suffered from the stroke of death among its 
foreign friends, 
IRELAND. 
A quarry of most beautiful green marble 
has been within the last six months dis- 
covered on the estate of John d’Arcy, Esq., 
of Clifton Castle, in the county of Galway. 
A territcrial survey is about to commence 
in Ireland, for the purpose of effecting a 
more equal apportionment of the local bur- 
thens of that country. 
The number of licensed spirit retailrrs in 
Ireland, for the year 1823, was 10,855 5 of 
grocers, 6,023; brewers, ‘205+; chandlers, 
721; coachmakers, 59; goldsmiths, 47; 
maltsters, 250; and the ‘timber of gallons 
of spirits made, was 2,052,792. 
Married. | Lord H. Seymour Moore, only 
brother of the Marg. of Drogheda, to Mary, 
second daughter of Sir H. Parnell, Bart., 
M.P. for the Queen’s county, and niece of 
the Marquis of Bute and the Earl of Por- 
tarlington.—At Booterstown, near Dublin, 
Mr. Gilbert Wakefield Macmuirdo, of Hack- 
ney, Middlesex, to Charlotte Eliza, daugh- 
ter of the late Geo. Ball, esq., of Castle- 
Bellingham, county of Lowth, Ireland, 
Died, |—At Killalo, 80, the ee J. Martin, 
who upwards of fifty years officiated as reader 
in the cathedral of that Diocese. — At Kilcar- 
berry, Clondalkin, Cecilia, relict of Can- 
trell Phillips, esq., nephew to Lord New- 
port, Chancellor of Ireland, and of his bro- 
ther, the Earl of Roden.—At Kilmurry, 
Treland, the seat of the Rt. Hon. the Chief 
Justice. of the Court of King’s Bench, 
C. Fox, esq., barrister, son of the late Judge 
Fox, and son-in-law to the Chief Justice. 
