1826.] 



Ecclesiastical Promotions. 



217 



Rectory of South Ormsby, with KeUby, Driby, 

 and the Vicarage of Calceby annexed, Lincoln- 

 «hire- 



The Rev. Dr. Williams, to tlie Vicarage of 

 Bradford Abba-s, with tlie Rectory of Clifton May- 

 banlc annexed, Dorset. 



The Rev. R. Huyshe, to the Vicarage of East 

 Crolier. 



The Rev. R. Pole, A.B., to the Rectory of Shev- 

 cocli, otherwise .Sheviake, Cornwall. 



The Rev. W. Scarborough, D..\., to the Lecture- 

 ahip and Perpetual C;uracy of Market llarborough. 



The Rev. Dr. Coppanl, to the Rectory of Fam- 

 borough, Hants. 



The Rev. A. Duncan, to the church and parish of 

 Coylton, in the I'resbytety of Ayr. 



The Rev. P. Candler, B.A., to the Rectory of 

 I.elheringsett, Norfolk. 



The Hev. H. Mackenzie, to the church and pari»h 

 of Clync. 



The Rev. C. Gordon, to the church and parish of 

 .\S8ynt. 



The Rev. J. Homer, M..\., to the Rectory of 

 South Preston, Lincolnshire. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGE.S, AND DEATHS, l.V AND NEAR LONDON. 



CHRONOLOGY. 



Dec. 21. — A meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society 

 was held at the Freemason's Tavern for the purpose 

 of petitioning Parliament to adopt measures for the 

 abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies. The 

 meeting was very numerously attended by both 

 sexes. Mr. Wilberforce having taken the chair, the 

 meeting was addressed by Sir James Mackintosh, 

 Mr. Brougham, Mr. Deraiian, Mr. Gumcy, 4:c. ; and 

 resolutions correspondent with the object of the 

 meeting were adopted. 



22. — A deputation of gentlemen concerned in tlie 

 silk trade, consisting of some of the principal rib- 

 bon-manufacturers of Coventry, and silk-throwsters 

 from various parts of England, had an interview 

 with some of the Ministers, at the house of Lord 

 Liverpool, on the subject of the law respecting fo- 

 reign importations, which wiU come into operation 

 in July next. Besides Lord Liverpool, there were 

 present the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hus- 

 kisson, Mr. Grant, and Mr. Herries. 



27. — William Henry Austin, a letter-sorter at the 

 General Post Office, for stealing a letter contaming 

 a .-£5 bank-note ! William Jasper, for forging an ac- 

 ceptance to a bUl of exchange; and John Edmonds, 

 for horse-stealing, were executed at the Old Bailey 

 pursuant to their sentence. 



28. — A meeting of Agriculturists from various 

 parts of the kingdom, who had come to London 

 for the Smithfield cattle show, took place at the 

 Vork Hotel, Brighton, to consider of the steps ne- 

 cessary to meet the question likely to be agitated in 

 the ensuing Session of Parliament, resjweting the 

 alteration in the Com Laws. 



3a — Workmen were marking out a fence for en- 

 closing the Achilles in Hyde-park ; the enclosure is 

 to be about forty feet from the iron railings now 

 standing ; a path is to be made round the fence, and 

 the public will see the statue at a proper dis- 

 tance. 



31 — The following are the aggregate averages 

 which regulate foreign importation, and which ap- 

 peared in the Gazette of the 31st of December :— 

 Wheat, ftls. 4d. ; Barley, 41s. 2d. ; Oats, 26s. fid. ; 

 Rye, 44s. Id. ; Beans, 45s. 9d. ; Pease, 48s. lOd. 

 The ports, in consequence, arc shut against the im- 

 portation of foreign pease, and continue open for 

 foreign barley for the next six weeks. 



Jan. 3 — A vestry-meeting of the inhabitants of 

 St. Giles's-without, Cripplegate, took place, for the 

 purpose of taking into consideration a letter which 

 had been written to them by their vicar, Mr. 

 Holmes, respecting his tythes. A committee was 

 appointed to wait on the Dean and Chapter of St. 

 Paul's, to ascertain the extent of their demand, and 

 to learn whether they would agree to go to Parlia- 

 ment on the subject. 



M.M. New Series.— \ou I. No. 2, 



5.— The patent shot-manufactory of Messrs. Wal- 

 ker and Parker, on the south side of the Thames, 

 opposite Surrey-street, was destroyed by fire. 



— Both Houses of Parliament were prorogued, by 

 virtue of the Royal Commission, to Thursday the 

 2d of February next ; Parliament is upon that day 

 to be holden and to sit for the despatch of businew. 



Ki — This morning Mary Caen, convicted of the 

 murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, was executed in the 

 front of Newgate pursuant to her sentence. 



— A meeting was held of the inhabitants of St. 

 Mathew, Bcthnal-green, in the parish church, for 

 the purpose of taking into consideration the alarm- 

 ingly distressed state of the silk-weavers. It was 

 stated that there were between eight and nine hun- 

 dred persons in the workhouse ; that the out pen- 

 sioners exceeded l,2(.«i; and that the latter num- 

 ber cost the parish a sum of A')2U weekly. A peti- 

 tion to the Board of Trade was adopted. 



17 — The Old Bailey Sessions concluded, when the 

 Recorder passed sentence of death on twenty-two, 

 one to be transported for life, six for fourteen years, 

 and thirty-eight for seven years, and several to va- 

 rious terms of imprisonment, hard labour, ic. The 

 sessions were then adjourned to the IGth of Fe- 

 bruary'. 



The steam-vessel Enterprize, bound to India, was 

 spoken with on the 25th of October, 34 3IP south lat. 

 28 east long., by a merchant ship arrived from 

 Penang. 



An expedition has been sent lately, by order of the 

 Government at Singapore, for the purpose of tak- 

 ing formal possession of several adjacent islands 

 ceded to the English by the late treaty with the Sul- 

 tan of Singapore. 



Capt. H. Bumey has been appointed as Envoy of 

 the Governor-general, to proceed on a mission to 

 Siam, should a fit opportunity offer for opening a 

 negociation with the people of that country, ex- 

 tremely jealous of any intercourse with foreigners, 

 and therefore difficult of access. 



Christenings and burials within the City of Lon- 

 don and bills of mortality, from Dec. 14 1824, to 

 Dec. 1.3 1825 ; — Christened in the i>7 parishes within 

 the walls, 975 ; Buried, 1,110. Christened in the 17 

 parishes without the walls, 4,749; Buried, 3,949. 

 Christened in the 29 out-parishes in Middlesex and 

 Surrey, 15,693; Buried, ll,fl06. Christened in the 

 10 parishes in the Citj' and Liberties of Westmin- 

 ster, 4,117 ; buried, 4,0G2. Total of diseases, 20,672 ; 

 total of casualties, 354. Christened, males, 12,915; 

 females, 12,719 — in all, 25,634. Buried, males, 

 10,825; females, 10,201— in all, 21,026. Whereof 

 have died under two years of age, 6,419; between 

 two and five, 2,061 ; five and ten, K67 ; ten and 

 twenty, 877; twenty and thirty, 1,485; thirty and 

 forty, 1,698; forty and fiftv, 1,C91 ; fifty and sixty, 



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