1822.] 
Miss S. Swift, of Ipsley.—Mr. A. Everitt, 
jan. of Edgbaston, to Miss M. Cherry, of 
Birmingham.—Mr. W.. Baker, of Birming- 
ham, to Miss E. Sharman, of Leicester. 
Died.| At Birmingham, Mr. R. Lewis ; 
Mr. James Lewis, father and son.—Mrs. 
E. Lowe.—?24, Mr. Charles Marston. 
—In Little Hampfton-street, Mr. J. 
Guest, deservedly regretted.— 91, Mr. D. 
Blair.—In Lancaster-street, 57, Mrs. A. 
Banister.—At Camp-hill, Mr. J. J. Parker, 
—In Price-street,34, Mr. W. Mole, aftera 
long affliction, justly esteemed and la- 
mented.—In Great Charles street, 25, Mr. 
J. Clapperton. 
At Stratford-upon-Ayon, 32, Mr, W. 
Whale. 
At West Bromwich, 71, Mr. E. Ken- 
swrick, highly respected and regretted.— 
At Springfield:house, Elizabeth, wife of 
Joseph Boultbee, esq.—At Beckbury, the 
Rev. J. D. Hane.—At King’s Norton, Mr, 
J. Kimberley. 
SHROPSHIRE. 
~ Married.] Mr. Price, of Shrewsbury, to 
Miss H. Wycherley, of Albrighton.—Mr. 
J. Cooper, to Miss Causer, both of Shiffnal. 
—Mr. Evans, of Pool, to Miss Davies, of 
Oswestry.— Mr. George Davies, of Bridg- 
north, to Miss M. T. Penson, late of 
Lilleshall Abbey.—Mr. J. Broome, of 
Church Stretton, to Miss E, Langslow, of 
‘Woolston.—John Holland, esq. of Ight- 
field-hall, to Miss M. Weaver, of Saighton. 
Died.) At Shrewsbury, Mr. Charles 
‘Jones.—In Wyle Cop, 85, Mrs. Barnes.— 
Mr. Mealow.—In_ Claremont-buildings, 
Miss H. Wingfield.—Major Parry, of 
Maesmor, Denbighshire-—In Frankwell, 
Miss M. Harris. : 
At Whitchurch, Mr. J. Davies. 
-At Oswestry, 74, Mr. T. Wright, deser- 
vedly regretted. 
At Bridgnorth, 54, Mr. T. Devey.— At 
an advanced age, Mr. John Oakes, a senior 
alderman of that corporation. 
At Wem, 19; Mrs. ‘Lea. 
At Stapleton, Mrs. Corfield, deservedly 
Tamented.—At All Stretton, Miss J. Wild- 
ing.—At Roden, 53, Mr. Taylor, much re- 
spected. 
; WORCESTERSHIRE. . 
Married.) Mr. T. Maullin, of Dudley, to 
Miss E. Cooper, of London.—Mr. W. 
Hopkins, of Kidderminster, to Miss M. 
Grafton, near Stourbridge. 
Died.) At Worcester, 75, Mrs. Load- 
man, widow of Capt. L, R.N.—74, Mrs. 
Mary Strickland, 
HEREFORDSHIRE. : 
We copy the following extraordinary 
statement from the provincial papers, 
How dangerous must be the spirit of fana- 
ticism and intolerance when we see it so 
operative even among the members of a 
literary society, who onght to set an exam- 
ple of correct liberal feelings to the rest of 
Shropshire —Worcestershire— Herefordshire, &c. 
475 
the community. , It behoves the minority 
of the forty-two to rally the rest of the so- 
ciety, and rescue Hereford from the igno- 
miny of being considered by-all the civi- 
lized world as the Beotia of England. Do 
the bigots suppose the works ia question 
will be’ less read, less respected, or less 
purchased, owing to their contemptible 
malice? On the contrary, they will be 
souvht with additional zest, and will be 
considered of higher value in proportion to 
the low estimation in which they are held 
by the narrow-minded, and this they may 
learn at every bookseller’s shop in He- 
refordshiré. For our own parts, we 
never yet saw the Rev. Mr. Burdon’s 
Materials for Thinking, but we are now 
stimulated to look into it, and we have no 
doubt but this act of over-zeal will render 
new editions necessary, and cause it, when 
it was quite forgotten, to become one of 
the most popular books of its time. It is 
well known that the most-extensively read 
books in Austria are those whose importa- 
tion is prohibited by the Censors; and, 
what is more, that these agents of intoler- 
ance generally prohibit the very best 
books. Action and re-action are equal in 
the moral, as well as the physical world :— 
«¢ At the annual meeting of the subscribers 
to the permanent library, Hereford, it was 
proposed to destroy “ Burdon’s Matefials 
for Thinking,” and ‘ Hone’s Apocrypha of 
the New Testament,” on the ground of 
immoral and irreligious tendency ; which 
was carried almost unanimously, and the 
books were destroyed, It was next pro- 
posed to destroy the works of Gibbon and 
‘Bayle, and Hume’s Essays, whicly was’car- 
ried by a majority of eight! ‘The execu- 
‘tion of this sweeping sentence was-/however 
postponed sine die, on a motion of ‘the li- 
brarian to that effect. Of 133 subscribers 
to the library, about forty-two were 
present.” 3 
Married.) Mr. W. H. Parker, jun. to 
Miss A. Gethen, both of Hereford.—Mr. 
J. Andrews, of Hereford, to Miss A. 
Hodges.—Mr. W. H. Lewis, of Hereford, 
to Miss E. Williams, of Abergavenny. 
Mr. W. Phelps, of New Court, near Ross, 
to Miss S. Prosser, of Garway. 
Died.] At Hereford, Mrs. S, Colbatch, 
highly and justly esteemed. 
At Leominster, in Corn-street, at an 
advanced age, Mrs.’ Edwards, — 
At Ross, Mrs. Robinson, generally eé- 
teemed and regretted. 
At Hatfield, 81, Mr. J. Walker, much 
respected, 
GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 
Tlie distressed agriculturists of Glous 
cester lately agreed to petition the House 
of Commons for relief. 
The western part. of the county of 
Monmouth has been, thronghont the 
month, in an agitated state, from: numerous 
bodies of unemployed workmen parading 
about 
