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Married.| At Duffield, Mr. W. Machin,. 
eldest son of J. Machin, esq., of Burslem, 
Staffordshire, to Hannah, fourth daughter of 
Mr. S. Harvey, of Milford; the Hon. and 
Rey. R. Eden, rector of Egham, to Mary, 
eldest daughter of F. Hurst, esq., of Alder- 
wasley. 
Died.| At Bolsover, Mrs. Nickson, 
youngest sister of the late G. Milnes, esq., 
of Dunston Hall; aged 85, Mrs. Beard, of 
Derby, relict of the Rev. T. Beard, m.a.— 
At Hulland, in the 19th year of ‘his age, 
J. Borough, youngest son of the late I. 
Borough, esq—At Draycott, J. Martin, 
aged 96—At Derby, his next brother, M. 
Martin, aged 94, both of Chaddesden. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 
On Wednesday week, as one of the game- 
keepers of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, 
at Clumber, near East Retford, was on his 
- usual perambulations, he observed a large 
body soaring in the air, which afterwards 
descended with great velocity to the surface 
of the water, as if intent upon its prey, and 
immediately rose again; on which he shot 
and killed it. When taken out of the lake, 
it proved to be ‘‘ the sea-eagle, or osprey :”” 
it measures from the tip of each wing, when 
extended, upwards of five feet; and from 
the beak to the tip of the tail two feet ; and 
weighs three pounds. Its prevailing colour 
is ferruginous, and the inner veins of the 
tail-feathers are white ; the cere is yellowish, 
and the legs are partly covered with down ; 
the eyes are of a bright yellow colour, and 
the talons are remarkably large. 
Married.) At Newark, Mr. C. True- 
man, of Nottingham, to Miss M‘Kenzie, of 
the former place; Mr. Dobbs, of Newark, 
to Frances, only daughter of the late E. 
Salmon, gent.—At Strelley, Major Hurt, 
formerly of the 9th Lancers, to Mary Mar- 
garet, second daughter of the late T. W. 
Edge, esq., of Strelley Hall, in the county 
of Nottingham. 
Died.] At Kirkby, in Ashfielc, Mr, W. 
Bowmar. 
: LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Mr. Scurfill, of Brigg, has an extraordi- 
nary fat pig, supposed to weigh about thirty 
stone. It is nineteen months old, stands two 
feet three inches high, is two feet across the 
back, girth of the neck four feet, and that of 
body six feet and a. half; length four feet 
and a half; head and ears very small; re- 
markably short legs; and the flesh so over- 
hangs the face as totally to exclude the light. 
The Opah Dory.—A rare and beautiful 
fish, called the opah dory, was caught lately 
off. Skegness, by some fishermen of that 
place. This species is a.native of Africa, 
- though sometimes met with in the Mediter- 
ranean and northern seas. Its form some- 
what resembles the John Dory. It exceeds 
"in size every other fish of its species: the one 
caught off Skegness measuring upwards of 
three feet in length, and nearly two. feet in , 
breadth. _ Its appearance is very handsome, ~ 
Provincial Occurrences :— Nottinghamshire, §c. 
[Nov. 1 > 
and the colours. of the skin are especially 
worthy of notice; the ground is a bright 
green, shaded by a brilliant blue, and when 
seen in different positions it appears diver- 
sified with red, varied by numerous large. 
oval spots, the whole forming a striking 
contrast with the fins and tail, which are of 
a bright scarlet. The fish is destitute of 
teeth, the absence of which is compensated 
by the peculiar structure of the tongue, 
which is thickly set with prickles pointing 
backwards, The breast-bone is remarkably 
prominent, and resembles in appearance the 
keel of a vessel. The extreme rarity of this 
beautiful production of nature in. these 
climes may be inferred from the fact, that 
only three of its kind are recorded to have 
been hitherto caught on the British coast ; 
the last one was caught in the year 1752, off 
Torbay, Devonshire, and is now preserved 
in the British Museum. 
A curious spring has lately been dis- 
covered in a garden at West Grimsby; the 
substance which issues from it is of a dark 
red colour, and when spread on the ground 
has the appearance of clotted blood. 
Married.| Mr. W.R. King, to R. Catha- 
rine, daughter of Mr. J. Graves—Dr. Sil- 
lery, medical staff, to Frances, third daugh- 
ter of the Rev. R. Williams, rector of 
Houghton, prebendary of Lincoln, and 
chaplain to the Marquess of Hastings—At 
Caistor, J. Atkinson, esq., of Binbrook, 
Lincoln, oMiss Codd, of Bradford. 
Died.| 36, Mary, the wife of A. Alder- 
son, esq-, of Woodhall Park—At Market 
Stainton, 63, Ann Parish, who for five 
years had been confined to her bed by a 
paralytic affection, during which period she 
took 1460 ounces of Jaudanum. 
LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 
Married.] The Rev. G. Hunter, of Great 
Wigston, to. Miss Siddons, of Cromford, 
near Matlock—At Loughborough, T. B. 
Miller, esq., to Susannah, relict of J. Land, 
esq , of Exeter. 
Died.|~ At Allexton, the Rev. C. Fen- 
wick, m.a.;. E. A. Burnaby, esq., of Bag- 
grave Hall, one of the gentlemen of his 
majesty’s privy-chamber, and a magistrate 
and deputy lieutenant for this county — 
At Quarndon, Miss C. Andrew, daughter 
of the late R. Andrew, esq., of Harleston 
Park, Northamptonshire. 
: STAFFORDSHIRE. 
A second free church is to be erected at 
Wolverhampton. 
Married.] At Handsworth, N. Tootal, 
esq., of Wakefield, to Louisa, daughter of 
the late W. Dawes, esq., of Birmingham— 
At Hanley, T. R. Foley, — , of Tetten- 
hall, to Anne, daughter of S. G. Simpson, 
esq., of Shelton, formerly of Rickerscote— 
At Stone, Mr. C. M. Ashwin, of Biston, 
to Harriet, second daughter of R. Forster, 
esq., of the former place— At Barton-under- 
Needwood, R. Cooper, esq., Burton-upon- 
Trent, to Mary Anne, only daughter of the 
late R. Brown, esq., of Sundridge, Kent. 
Died.) 
