1823.] 



Marriages in and near London, 



Wilson, spoke on the occasion, but with 

 Htter irrelevancy ; for it seems the lawyers 

 have contrived so to puzzle the plain sense 

 of men of business on this subject, as to 

 deprive them of their usual perspicacity. 

 These crafty sophislicators wish to make 

 it believed that there is no middle course 

 or alternative between banliriiptcy or 

 perpetual imprisonment, and the payment 

 of a farthing in the pound; and the com- 

 mercial and trading interest suti'ers itself 

 to be amused by this fraud. On the con- 

 trary, it is as plain as that two and two 

 make four, that an Act of Parliament in 

 twenty or thirty lines conferring on three- 

 fourths or four-fifths of a body of cre- 

 ditors the power of conducting, com- 

 pounding, and releasing a debtor on the 

 best terms he could offer, would relieve 

 debtors from the obligation which they 

 now feel to figlit through their embarrass- 

 ments, rather than meet the fatal conse- 

 quences, till every shilling of their pro- 

 perty is wasted ; and would enable bodies 

 of creditors to get 10, 15, and even 20, 

 shillings in the pound, if they were en- 

 abled to do so by law, and in spite of 

 certain malignant, crafty, and sordid, per- 

 sons, who, among every body of creditors, 

 are now able to frustrate any proposal 

 made for adjustment. The power which 

 at present is possessed by single creditors 

 of refusing their assent to any arrange- 

 ment, however reasonable and just, is the 

 sole cause of all the misery and mischief 

 which result from the relation of debtor 

 and creditor; and, if the trading interests 

 of England possess common sense, they 

 will endeavour, in spite of the lawyers and 

 commissioners of bankrupts, who fill the 

 committees of the House of Commons, 

 to procure an enactment to correct this 

 great practical evil. 



A steam-packet company is about to be 

 established in London. The capital will 

 be 300,0001. in one hundred and fifty 

 shares of 20001. each. 



The total number of cattle brought to 

 market in the year 1821 was 152,169. In 

 1822 the gross amount was 160,637, being 

 an increase of 8528 over the number 

 brought to market in 1821. The total 

 number of sheep brought to Smithfield for 

 sale in 1821, was 1,275,700; and in 1822 

 it amounted to no less than 1,548,700, 

 being the cnoimoiis increase of 267,500 

 sheep above the return of 1821. 



Tlie total quantity of coals imported 

 into London in 1822, was, l,25;5,436 

 chaldrons. The average quantity im- 

 ported in the five years from 181-1 to 

 1818, was, 1,16<!,108 chaldrons, while the 

 average of the five years, 1818 to 1822, 

 was 1,243,422 chaldrons, being an average 

 increase each year of 81,014 chaldrons, in 

 the consumption of coals in the metropolis 

 and neighbourhood. 



181 

 MARRIED. 



Barry E. O'Meara, esq. to Lady Leigh. 



Charles Beaven, esq. to Mary Grant, 

 youngest daughter of Hamilton Leonard 

 Earle, esq. late of Tweed House, Nor- 

 thumberland. 



At Mary-la-bonne-church, Robert Hel- 

 lers, esq. of New Lodge, Berkhampstead, 

 to Miss Elizabeth Bridges, of Gloucester- 

 place, Portman-square. 



Capt. Budger, esq. of Hotensdale-house, 

 Nutfield, Surrey, to Miss Wilhehnina 

 Caroline Moor, of Twickenham. 



John Pugh, esq. of Gray's Inn, barrister- 

 at-law, to Miss Jane Singer, of Becking- 

 ton, Somersetshire. 



At St. Pancras church, Westley Rich- 

 ards, esq. of Edgbastou, Warwickshire, to 

 Miss Harriet Scale, of Muscovy-court, 

 Trinity-square. 



Capt. Fanshawe, r.n. to Miss Caroline 

 Luttrell, of Devonshire-street, Portland- 

 place. 



At St. George's, Hanover-square, Lewis 

 Lloyd, esq. of New Norfolk-street, Park- 

 lane, to Miss Mary Champion, of Gros- 

 venor-square. 



The Rev. Francis EUaby, to Miss 

 Frances Brooks, both of Edmonton. 



At St. Pancras, Lord Colcraine, to Mis3 

 Mary Ann Catherine Greenwood. 



The Rev. Thomas Henry Walpole, of 

 Sutton Valence, to Miss Sarah Meriton, of 

 Peckham. 



Francis H. Brandram, esq. of the 

 Albany, Piccadilly, to Miss Maria Bed- 

 ford, of Elmhurst. 



Mr. William Frazer, to Miss Catharine 

 Austin, both of Portland-place, New 

 Kent-road. 



Capt. AlgeiTion Eliot, r.n. to Jane, 

 daughter of the Rev. Dr. Crombie. 



Richard Phillips, esq. eldest son of Sir 

 Richard P. to Matilda, only child of 

 Thomas Bacon, esq. of Claines, Wor- 

 cestershire. 



George Frederick Furnivall, esq. of 

 Egham, to Sophia Hughes, daughter of 

 the late James Burwell, esq. of Coworth, 

 Berks. 



At Croydon, Frederick Harris, esq. of 

 Leominster, to Sarah, daughter of the late 

 Sir John Horsford, k.b. of the Bengal 

 artillery. 



Mr. Reuben Bucknell, of Farnham, 

 Surrey, to Miss E. D. Crowe, of Col- 

 chester. 



Mr. Benjamin Kingston Finnimire, to 

 Miss S. Lambert, both of Guildford. 



Mr. John Bailey, of Wood-street, 

 Cheapside, to Miss Cole, of Sutton St. 

 Edmund's, Lincolnshire. 



Mr. Charles Crampon, of Ludgate-hill, 

 to Miss Howard, of Saxmundham. 



Mr. Glover, of Kingsland-road, to 

 Miss Anne Green, late of Bury St. 

 Ednuind's. 



Mr. 



