tial appointment, is considered, it is no 

 small credit to the memory of any indivi- 

 dual ensa^ed in it, particularly one of anti- 

 ministerial politics, that he should have 

 performed the laborious duties of the office 



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culiar to himself. Mr. Lewis was nata- 

 rally of a gouty habit ; and this, irritated 

 by a formidable complaint in the bladder, 

 — for which his friend Dr. Frout had pre- 

 scribed every possible relief,— at length 



for three years, while the Act continued, seized him in a vital part, and put an end 

 without fee or reward, on principles of to his existence; verifying the remark of 



Lord Bacon, "That when a learned man 

 dies, who has been long a-makiug, a great 

 deal dies with him." 



piire public service. Mr. Lewis was for 



many years in the commission of the peace, 



and attended regularly at the Middlesex 



Sessions ; but an infirmity of hearing, 



■which grew upon him of late, precluding ecclesiastical promotions. 



his interference in the judicial functions of Rev. F.S. Trotman, b.a. to the Vicarage 



the Bench, he confined himself principally of Dallington, Nortliamptonshiie, and to 



to those pertaining to the management the Rectory of Stoke Geldington, and. 



and discipline of the House of Correction ; Gayhurst, Bucks. 



and especially to the regulation of the 

 New Prison, in Clerkenwell, which was 

 re-erected under his immediate inspection, 

 aided by the professional judgment of his 



Kev. Hugh Owen, ll.d. master of the 

 Grammar School at Beccles, to the Rec- 

 tory and Parish Church of Beccles. 



Rev. \V. W. Greenaway, to the Rectory 



equally zealous associate in the task, Mr. of Newbold Verdou, Leicestershire ; also 



Saimders the architect. Mr. Lewis was to the Vicarage of Shackerstone. 



actively engaged in other commissions of Rev. Ralph Lyon, m.a. to be Head 



the crown ; was a director of diti'erent Master of the King's School, Sherborne, 



public offices, and a member of many Dorset. 



learned and scientific societies. When the Rev. Jermyn Pratt, r.a. to the consoli- 



Linnean Society was incorporated, he was dated Rectories of Bintry and Tlieniil- 



one of the fifteen original fellows included thorpe, Norfolk. 



in the charter, and empowered to appoint Rev. George Lewes Benson has been 



the others; and amongst a large circle of elected a Vicar Choral of Salisbury Ca- 



philosophical acquaintance, comprising the fhedral. 



most distinguished characters of the day, 

 Mr. Lewis was universally esteemed as a 

 rtian of very superior attainments, in almost 

 every branch of science. On leaving bu- 

 siness, many years before his death, he de- 

 voted himself to the seclusion of his garden, 

 in which he chiefly delighted, as affording 

 liiin the means of prosecuting his favourite 

 study of botany ; and, of remarkable accu- 

 racy in his observations, and fond of con- 

 templating the works of nature, he made 

 frequent use of the microscope and tele- 

 scope to promote useful knowledge, and 

 to encourage elegant amusement. In pri- 

 vate life he was cheerful and entertaining ; 

 inquisitive himself, and communicative to 

 others, he indulged his family and friends 

 with conversation of the mcst nistructive 

 kind, seasoned on his side from a fund of 

 anecdote, with humourous illustrations pe- 



Rev. John Nelson, m.a. to the Rectory 

 and Parish Ciunch of Mileham, Norfolk. 



Rev. J. Lempriere, to the Rectory of 

 Newton St. Petrock, Devon. 



Rev. William Acton, r,L.B. to the Rec- 

 tory of Ayott St. Lawrence, Herts. 



Rev. J. Cape, m.a. to be Head Master 

 of the Artillery and Engineer Seminary at 

 Addiscombe, near Croydon. 



Rev. C. R. Sumner, to be Chaplain in 

 Ordinaiy to the King. 



Rev. W. Burgess, to tiie consolidated 

 Vicarage of Kirby, Waltou, and Thorpe- 

 le-Soken, Essex. 



Rev. John Jenkins, to the Rectory of 

 Knill, Herefordshire. 



Rev. J. Bluck, to the Vicarage of Grays 

 Thurrock, Essex. 



Rev. J. W.Peters, to the Rectory of 

 Queningtou, in Gloucestcisliire. 



PROVJNCJAL OCCURRENCES, 



WITH ALL THE MAllRIAGES AND DEATHS, 



Fmnlahing ilie Domestic and Family HisCnry of England for the last twciitij-scvm Years. 



NORTIIUMBEItLANII AND DURHAM. 



A LAMENTAULi! occurrence lately took 

 -^ place at the Newcastle theatre. A 

 jjas-liglit in the lower part of the Circus 

 coiuing in contact with a piece of board, 

 Ret lire to it; an alarm, and a general rush 

 f.)llowed to get out of the house; in cou- 

 HPqueilC', from ten to twelve persons 

 were crushed to death, and upwards of 

 lifly iujurcd. 

 Mii.sniiY Mac. No, 3G0. 



A meeting of tiic inhabitants of the 

 parish of St. Niihnlas', Newcastle, was 

 lately held, to consider of the pro|)riety of 

 petitioning Parliament to exempt .sliops 

 and warehouses, m all cases, from the duty 

 on inhabited houses. Resolutions and a 

 petition to that effect were adopted una- 

 nininusly. 



Married.] Mr. W. Lamb, of Byker-hiil, 



to Mi^s J. Smith; Mr. T. Rarkas, to Miss 



() o J. Johnsloi); 



