1825.] 
shire, to Miss E. Edwards, of Bath—At Bath, N.- 
Micklem, esq., of Henley-upon-Thames, to Eleanor, 
eldest daughter of T. George, esq., of Bath. 
Died.] / At Fairweather-house, near Taunton, Rear 
Admiral J. C. Searle—At Worle, 103, Mr. J. Bishop ; 
he was the father, gYand-father, and great grand- 
father of 180 children, of whom 115 are now living— 
At Taunton, 56, R. Faulkland, esq.—Miss Cox— 
Mrs. M. A., wife of the Rev. —. Blake, of Bishops 
Lydeard, near Taunton—At Wells, Eleanor, wife of 
S. D. Witherell, esq.—Elizabeth, only child of the 
Rey. A. Tidman, of Frome—At Bath, H. W. B. 
Smith, esq.—At Mont Pellier, Bath, Mrs. D.Thorpe, 
daughter of D.Thorpe, esq. of Barbadoes. 
DORSETSHIRE, 
During-the late hurricane, an elm-tree, supposed 
to be a thousand years old, was blown down, near 
Lulworth Castle. Eleven loads of timber, besides 
lops and tops, were the produce of this tree. It was 
an ornament to the place in the time of Thomas 
Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who about three hun- 
dred years ago built that beautiful castle. Five hun- 
Dorsetshire—Devonshire—Cornwall— Wales—Scotland. 
dred trees of smaller dimensions were also blown ° 
down. 
An oak tree, about three hundred years old, is now 
growing on the Rev. T. Weld’s manor, at Wool, in 
this county. — Its trunk is hollow, about thirty feet 
in he‘ght, and threugh this cavity a fine birch tree 
has sprung up, the branches of which appear above 
the top of the oak. 
Some of the finest stone-quarries in the kingdom 
have been opened at West Lulworth. The stone is 
considered superior to that of Portland. 
Married.] At Sherborne, Mr. T. Bishop, to Miss 
S. Hiscock, of Stourton Caundle—Mr. R. F. Earle, 
to Miss Evans, daughter of the Rev. D. Evans. 
Died.] The Rev. J. Dowland, rector of Winter- 
bourne Clenstone, near Blandford—C. Dansey, esq., 
son of J. Dansey, esq-, of Blandford—Mary, daugh- 
ter of the late H. Sturt, esq., of Critchell-house. 
DEVONSHIRE. 
On the 8th January, the ceremony of laying the 
first stone of the North Devon Infirmary, took place 
before a numerous assembly. 
We are assured the cuckoo has been already heard 
in the western part of Devonshire ; and a wren’s nest 
was found last week, with eggs in it, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Exeter. 
Married.| At Marlborough, near King’s Bridge; 
F. J, Delafosse, esq., of Richmond, Surrey, to Do- 
rothy, eldest daughter of the late E. T. Collins, esq. 
—At Exeter, J. Bingham, esq., of Melcombe, Dor- 
set, to Frances Eleonora, daughter of the late Rev. 
W. Woolcombe, of East Worlington—The Rev. G. 
Wills, vicar of Holcombe Regis, to Judith, daugh- 
ter of H. Wilson, esq.—At Stonehouse, the Rev. J. 
Kirkby, to Nancy, daughter of the late Captain 
Fayrer, of Harmony-hill, Milithorpe, Westmoreland 
—At Plymouth, W. Bennet, esq., to Miss Treby, 
daughter of the late G. Treby, esq., of Plympton- 
house—At Plympton, the Rev. J.C. Jones, D.D., 
to Charlotte, relict of Captain Crawley, RN, 
Died.| At Bramford Speke, Mrs. Evans, mother 
of the late Sir William Evans, recorder of Bombay— 
At Sidmouth, G. Sparks, esq.—At Exmouth, J. B. 
Capon, esq.—At Plymouth, T. Dillon, esq.—On the 
Den, Teignmouth, W.W. Mitchell, esq.—Near Ply- 
mout’, Mrs. Smith, wife of J. Smith, esq.—At 
Devonport, 77, Mrs. Smith—At Stonehouse, Lieut. 
V. Munbee, R. N.—75, Ann relict of the Rev. G, 
Corryton—Thomas, son of Captain Balhatchet, of 
Bideford—At Torquay, L. Oliphant, esq.—At New- 
ton Abbot, 26, T. Farley, esq.—Frances, wife of the 
Nev, R, Greenwood, of Collaton. 
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CORNWALL. 
Married.] At the Friends Meeting House, Fal- 
mouth, Mr. A. Jenkin, of Treworgy, to Miss M- 
Pearse—At Maker, F. Grey, esq., to Harriet, eldest 
daughter of J. Vallack, esq., of Kingsand. 
Died.) The Rev. T. H. Morrison, vicar of Lau- 
noells—At Falmouth, Dr. Lowry—At Liskeard, 89, 
Mrs. Pedlar—At Penryn, Mrs. Lean, wife of Captain 
J. Lean—At St. Agnes, 90, Mrs. Prout—At Strat- 
ton, 88, Captain R. Smith—At Liskeard, 73, Mrs, 
Puckey, relict of the late A. Puckey, esq. 
WALES. 
Marvied-} R. Johnson, esq., of Llyndere, to 
Miss Gilder, daughter of Captain Gilder, of Welsh 
Pool—George Till, esq., to Miss M- L. Jones, of Ber- 
riew, Montgomeryshire—At Llanwenog, Cardigan- 
shire, the Rey. J. B. Crebin, to Elizabeth, eldest 
daughter of Mr. E. Davies, of Crigwheel—The Rev. 
J.T. Powell, rector of Llanhamlach and Cantreff, 
Breconshire, to Arabella, daughter of the late E. C. 
Ives, esq., of Titchfield, Hants. 
Died.] At Ham, near Lanturt-major, Glamor- 
ganshire, 85, Mrs. Evans, widow of the Rev. —. 
Evans, of Landaffi—At Wrexham, J. Downman, 
esq. ' 
SCOTLAND. 
Church Patronage——On Friday 24 December, a 
meeting was held at the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, 
for the purpose of establishing a Society for improy- 
ing the system of Church Patronage in: Scotland. 
William Howison Craufurd, of Craufurdland, esq., 
was called to the chair; and after a short discussion, 
resolutions wete entered into expressive of the ob- 
jects of the meeting, which are to acquire rights of 
patronage, and to secure the nomination of accept- 
able ministers, by settling them on popular princi- 
ples, as well as by every means to excite attention to 
the importance of this branch of ecclesiastical polity, 
so as to ameliorate the exercise of patronage in those 
instances where the right cannot be acquired. 
In Glasgow the Clyde began to rise on Saturday 
morning Dec. 24. By mid-day the water made its 
appearance in the Bridge-gate, and it rose with such 
rapidity, that, by half-past one, it wzs fully two feet 
deep in the middle of the street. It continued to rise 
until four o’clock on Sunday morning. When it be- 
gan to recede, it went off exactly at the rate of an 
inch in the hour for four hours, when it subsided 
more rapidly. At twenty minutes past four on Sun- 
day afternoon, the Bridge-gate became passable for 
pedestrians, after having been twenty-eight hours 
under water. From a variety of measurements that 
have been made, it appears that in the Bridge-gate, 
at the head of Market-lane, it was thirty inches deep. 
In the Goose-dubs and Stockwell it was four feet 
anda half. It was three feet three inches deep in 
Jamaica-street, and about the same depth in the 
main street of Gorbals; and upon the whole it has 
been from five to six inches above the great inunda- 
tion of this time nine years, and thirty-four inches 
under that of 12th March, 1782. On Saturday after- 
noon and Sunday morning, the scene was deeply 
interesting, when viewed from the Broomielaw- 
bridge. An immense stream of water was rolling 
slowly and majestically along, occupying the whole 
space between the houses on both sides of the river ; 
boats were plying in Jamaica-street, and in all direc- 
tions on the quay. The water extended to above 
the windows of the light-house, and the globes of 
the high lamps, extending along the quay, were 
within afew inches of the water. One of them is 
tumbled down altogether. . A vessel, called the Lady 
Montgomery, was driven ashore. The only fatal 
accident that we have heard that has occurred on 
this occasion, is the death of a poor old woman who 
resided 
