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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
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witb, WITH aru razr MARRIAGES anv DEATHS; 
Arronged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South, 
*,* Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly .au- 
thenticated, and -sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. 
Those are. 
more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Duprovements of 
any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent 
or remarkable Characters recently deceased. ’ 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
PPLICATION is intended to be made 
to parliament, in the ensuing session, 
for leave to bring'in a bill for the better pre- 
servation, and further improvement of the 
river Wear, and port and harbour of Sunder- 
land. 
A very elegant mural marble monument 
hag been erected in the parish church of Ber- 
wick, in memory of the late George Young~ 
husband, esq. a native of that town, late a 
captain in the royal navy, at the expence of 
the Insurance Companies and merchants of 
Barbadées, as a tribute to his memory for the 
eminent services rendered by him in protect- 
ing thetrade of the Windward Islands. 
The Board of Agriculture have granted 
Mr. Crozer, nursery and seedsman, of Aln- 
wick, a reward of five guineas, for his disco- 
very of the means of preventing the curlin 
potatoes ; and purchased a quantity of pota- 
toes, treated according to his plan, which 
they have distributed in the southern dis- 
tticts of England, to make so useful a disco- 
very move generally known. By Mr. Crozer’s 
process, the potatoes intended for seed are set 
later and taken up earlier than when intended 
for food. And the produce from such plants, 
it is found, have stronger power of vegeta- 
tion, and are less liable to disease, than when 
they are suffered to grow to full maturity. 
On the same principle, potatucs from cold 
and bleak parts of the country are not liable 
to curl. 
Married.| At Bishopwearmouth, Mr, Jo- 
siah Lynn, ship-owner, to Mrs. Ann Rich- 
ardson. : . 
At Newcastle, Mr. Westgarth, surgeon, to 
Miss Gibson—Mr. R. W. Carr, to Miss 
Whitby, of Preston. 
At Durham, Mr. John Grieveson, to Miss 
Margaret Wilkinson.—Mr. Edward Pattison, 
of Merrington, to Miss Jane Emmerson. 
At Hexham, Mr. Francis‘Scott, to Miss 
Blizabeth Wilson. 
Died-},At Durham, Mr. Robert Moore, 
one of the brethren of Sherburn hospital, 95. 
=—Mrs. Mary Macknight, 55 — General 
Montgomery Agnew, governor of Carlisle, 78. 
—Mrs. Tyson, 88.—Mr. Wm. Palmer, 36. 
—Mrs. Ann Maddison, 85.—Mr. Matthew 
Davis, 71. He dropped down in the street 
and expired in afew minutes. 
At Newcastle, Mrs. Jane Orean, 101.—» 
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Mr. Alex. M‘Gregor, 84.—- Mrs. Scotland, 
wife of Mr. Robert S. 48 —-Mr. John Men- 
ham, 53,—Mrs. Margaret Mason, 59.——Mr. 
John Moody, 38.—Mr. William Kelly, dis- 
tributor of stamps.—Frederick Horn, esqs 
surgeon, and captain of the light infantry 
company of the Newcastle volunteers.—-Mr, , 
Thomas Maddock, 41.—Miss Margaret Trail. 
—Miss Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Mr. 
Peter J. 14.—Mrs. Dorothy Turnbull, 106, 
Till within tkree days of her death she pos-— 
sessed all her faculties —Mr. Richard Ber- 
gess, many years a salt officer at South Shields, 
88.—The rev. John Falcon, who has many 
years held the perpetual clerkship of the 
parish of Gateshead. 
At Darlington, Mr. George Brown, 77. 
He was 52 years:a member of the Methodist 
Society, and during most of that time 
acted @s a local preacher. . 
At Berwick, Mrs. Todd.—The Rev. James 
Aitchinson.—Mrs. Gracie, 76.—Mrs. How, 
wife of Mr. Johnson H. surgeon.—-Mrs, 
Nelson, 
At Branton, the Rev. James Somerville, 
upwards of 24 yeurs pastor of the Presbyte- 
rian chapel at that place. 
At Stockton, MrsUhomas Grieves.—-Chris~- 
topher Allison, esq. §7.—-Mr. George Ry- 
mer, 18 yeats master of the charity schvol 
in this town, 52.—-Mrs. Lodge, wife of Mr. 
Ralph L. : 
At Morpeth, Mr. Thomas Jackson, 73.—- 
Mr. William Turner. 
At Sunderland, Mrs. Thompson. 
At Hexham, Mrs. Jane Wilson, wife of 
Mr. William W. . 
At Newcastle, Mr, William Temple, 
weaver, many years foreman in Midd's 
sail-cloth manufactory, and latterly governor 
of All Saint’s poor-house. By a close and re- 
gular application of the few hours afforded 
from a laborious occupation, he had acquir- 
ed an astonishing proficiency in most.of the 
eastern languages, particularly the. Hebrew, 
Arabic, and Persian; with the Greek and 
Latin, and some of the modern languages he 
was also well acquainted. The study of the 
original scriptures, with their various trans- 
lations, was the object of his unwearied pur- 
suit for a number of years, and few possessed 
equal talents for biblical criticism, With 
many of the peculiarities of a self-taught 
scholar he enjoyed a remarkable activity of 
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