382 Wales— Scotland— Irdand. 



month. — 37, Mrs, Jolin Budge, of Cam- 

 Lornp, of tlic Society of Friends. 



At Pcnryn, 63, Mrs. Mitcliell. 



At Redruth, Mr. J. Trevena. 



WALE5. 



A meeting lately took place of the 

 roiuity and borough of Carmarthen, for 

 the purpose of petitioning for the repeal 

 of tiie tax upon windows. The petitions 

 were agreed to. 



An explosion of t'.ie fire-damp lately 

 orcurred at the 01<1 Church Pit Colliery, 

 near Swansea, wlien four men lost their 

 lives, eighteen were dicadtnliy scorched 

 and lacerated, and four received com- 

 pound fiacturcs. 



A brig, name unknown, lately sank in 

 Swansea Bay, and all on-board perished. 



Murricd.']' Mi: W. Tiiomes, to MissM. 

 Hanson; Mr. W. Freeman, to Miss S. 

 James ; Mr. H. A. Koliinson, to Miss H. 

 Webb : all of Swansea.— .lonathan Ree.s, 

 of Neath,to Elizabeth, daughter of Francis 

 Joshire, Regent-street, London, members 

 of the Society of Friends.— John Leuis, 

 esq. of Henllan, to Elizabeth, daughter of 

 William Humphreys, of Pembroke. — At 

 Lantroit Major, Glamorganshire, Mr. T. 

 Meyrick, to Mrs. M. Thomas — Mr. B. 

 Richards, of Wern, to Miss A. Davies, of 

 Glantowy, Carmarthenslrire. 



Died] At Swansea, in Wind-streef, 

 Mrs. Andrews.— 44, Mrs. James. 



At Carmarthen, .58, J. W. Mansfield, 

 esq. of Swansea, much respected. — 37, 

 the Rev. T. Hancock, m.a. justly re- 

 gretted. 



At Llanelly, 81, Henry Child, esq. 

 generally and justly lamented. 



At Wenvoe-castle, Glamorganshire, 40, 

 Robert Jenner, esq. — At Devynnock, 

 Brecnnshire, 26, the Rev. W. Williams. — 

 At Cydfowyr, Pembrokeshire, 82, Martha, 

 widow of the Rev. L. Thomas. 



After a short illness, 72, Edward Jones, 

 bard to the Prince of Wales. He was a 

 native of Merionethshire, in North Wales, 

 and published, about thirty years ago, a 

 work entitled " Relics of the Bards," 

 which contains much valuable historical 



information; also a collection of Welsh 



Airs, arranged for the harp, an instrument 



which Mr. Jones performed on after the 



manner of his forefathers, that is, he 



played the treble with his left hand, and 



the bass with the right. Mr. Jones pos- 

 . sessed a library of rare books, both ma- 

 nuscript and printed. He was a meuiber 



of the Royal Society of Musicians, the go- 

 vernors of which, on hearing that he was 



totally unable to follow his professional 



pursuit", granted him an annuity of fifty 



pounds per annum ; but he only lived to 



enjoy the first payment of the Institntiou's 



bounty. 



At Bryn-y-Groes Fach, near Llanelly, 



76, the IJcv, Thomas Clement. He dis- 



tinguished himself by publishing, soiTie 

 years since, a work on Natural Philo.sophy; 

 lie has also written an Essay on Theology, 

 and an introduction to the study of Polite 

 Literature, both of which will shortly be 

 published. 



SCOTLAND. 



A society lias been lately formed in 

 Edinburgh, to aid deserving persons in 

 their endeavours to emigrate and settle in 

 New South Wales aod Van Dieman's 

 Land. 



Manied.] At Edinburgh, Dr. R.Dobson, 

 10 Miss R. Pnrves, daughter of the late 

 Sir A. P. hart. 



C. C. Halkets, esq. of Hallhill, Fife- 

 shire, to Susan, daughter of Sir J. 

 Majoribaiiks, bart. 



Died,] At Edinburgh, John Glced, esq. 

 solicitor of the Excise in Scotland, anil 

 formerly recorder of Reading. — Major- 

 General W. Daeres. — Andrew Fyfe, esq. 

 Fellow of the Collpge of Surgeons, as- 

 sistant to the late Dr. Munro, and aiithur 

 of the System and Compendium of Ana- 

 tomy, the plates of which were engraved 

 by himself. 



At Banff, James Robinson, esq. late of 

 the 9lsl regiment. 



At Dumbarton Castle, 77, Major-Gen. 

 H.\v Ferrier, Lieutenant-Governor of that 

 garri:;on. 



IRELAND. 



A meeting was lately held at Dublin, 

 Lord Cloucurry in the chair, when it was 

 agreed to form an association for the pur- 

 pose of draining the bogs of Ireland. It 

 is calculated that there are about 3,000,000 

 acres of such land in that kingdom. A 

 great number of persons enrolled tlieir 

 names for shares. 



Two thousand respectable inhabitants 

 of Drogheda, lately agreed to petition 

 Parliament for relief. They complained 

 that Roman Catholics were excluded from 

 Grand Juries, Corporations, &c. and that 

 the benefits from the relaxation of laws 

 in their favour were prevented by local 

 influence. 



We regret to state 4hat the discontents 

 of the SouUi yet continue; the rigorous 

 exaction of lithes appears to have stimula- 

 ted the people to murder in several in- 

 stances. In Limerick, they arrest under 

 the Insurrection Act ; on one day sixteen 

 men were taken up in Kilmeady. 



JMarri;d.} At Dublin, Sir F. L. Blosse, 

 bart. to Elizabeth, daughter of the Right 

 Hon. W. C. Plunket.— John Phinket, 

 esq. to Charlotte, daughter of Chief-Jus- 

 tice Buslie. — Robert Kerr, esq. of the 

 county Tyrone, to Anne, daughter of the 

 late William Gorton, esq. of Windsor. — 

 Capt. Mahir, of the county Tipperary, to 

 Mary Anne, daughter of the late Henry 

 Francis Winlle, esq. of Walworth. 



