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London Incidents', Marriages and Deaths, 



[March, 



!7- — At a meeting of the Bank Proprietors, the 

 majority present agreed to the terms proposed by 

 Government, to throw open the country banlting 

 system to any number of partners of linown 

 responsibility, and to prevent the issue of one and 

 two pound notes, by country bankers, in tlie course 

 of two or three years, the bank reserving their ex- 

 isting privilege withm sixty-five miles of London. 



— Considerable alarm was created, between three 

 and four o'dock in the afternoon, by the falling of 

 a house in Spread Eagle Court, Gray's-Inn Lane: 

 four or five persons were dug out from among the 

 ruins alive, but much bruised and lacerated, and 

 one unfortunate Irishman, about fifty years of age, 

 quite dead. 



28 — The gazette announced the appointment of 

 the Duke of Wellington to bear his Majesty's con- 

 gratulations to the Emperor of Russia on his acces- 

 sion. 



31. — His Majesty has been pleased to direct the 

 application of a sum of ieillOO in aid of the fund for 

 the relief of the distresses of the journeymen silk- 

 weavers in Spitalfields. 



—7 The Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Venables, gave 

 a splendid dinner to His Royal Higluiess the Duke 

 of York and a numerous company, among whom 

 were several of His Majesty's Ministers and other 

 distinguished personages. 



Feb. 2. — Both Houses of Parliament met for the 

 despatch of business pursuant to the last prorogation: 

 the Session was opened by commission. His Majes- 

 ty's speech was read by Lord Gifford, one of the 

 Lord Commissioners, in thi absence of the Lord 

 Chancellor from indisposition. 



6. — His ISIajesty has given orders, that the rooms 

 of his palace at Windsor shall be hung round with 

 Bilk of the Spitalfields manufacture. It is expected 

 that many of the nobility will testify their compas- 

 sion for the unfortunate weavers in a similar man- 

 ner. 



— The Lord Mayor received a letter from the 

 Earl of Darlington enclosing =£500, to be applied for 

 the relief of the suffering silk weavers in Spital- 

 fields. 



8.— At a special meeting of the Court of Common 

 Council, the sum of, £500 was voted for the relief 

 of the Spitalfields weavers. 



— A meeting, which had been called by Sir Tho- 

 Sias Beaver, for the purpose of raising a subscription 

 to enable Mr. Cobbett to obtain a seat in the 

 House of Commons, took place at the Free- 

 Masons' Tavern ; the room being inconvenient- 

 ly cfi\jvde5l at an early liour, and great num'oers 

 imable to obtain admission, the meeting was ad- 

 journed to. the north-west comor of Lincoln's-Inn 

 Fields, where, after Sir Thomas Beaver had opened 

 the business, an^ Col. Johnson, M-P-, Mr. P. 

 Walker, Mr. Cobbett, and others had addressed the 

 persons assembled, resolutions for entering into a 

 subscription were adopted, and the meeting dis- 

 persed. 



15. — The Protestant dissenting ministers of the 

 ^ree denominations, residing in and about the cities 

 of London and Westminster, have unanimously 

 adopted a petition to the Legislature, praying for 

 the speedy and total suppression of slavery in the 

 British Colonies. 



21.— Edward Cockerell for forgery, and William 

 Jones for burglary, were executed this day at the 

 OU Bailey. 



MARRIAGES. 



The Rev. A. C. Lawrence, to Emily, daughter of 



the late G. F. Hatton, esq., of Eastwell-park, Kent 



—The Rev. G. R, Grey, of Woodford, to Eliza, 



daughter of W. T. Robinson, esq.— T. FowIqv, esq.. 



to Lucy, daughter of the late N. Waterhouse, esq., 

 Liverpool — T. AL Weston, esq., of Sutton-iilace, 

 Surrey, to Mary, daughter of the late J. Wright, 

 esq., of Kilverdon-house, Essex — The Rev. S. Carr, 

 M.A., to Mrs. C. C. Buxton, of North-end, Hamp- 

 stead — At Uxbridge, C. T- Claydon, esq., to i\iin, 

 daughter of the Rev. T. C. Beasley— W. H. Harford, 

 esq., to Emily, daugliter of J. King, esq. — H. B. 

 Trevanion, esq., of Caerhays, Cornwall, to Geor- 

 giana, daughter of G. Leigh, esq. — R. Buston, esq., 

 to Patience, daughter of the late P. Bridges, esq., of 

 Elmswell, Suffolk — C. Stephenson, esq., of Lam- ** 

 beth, to Catherine, daughter of J. Abington, esq. — 

 Mr. Paynter, to Mary Ann, daughter of J. Read, 

 esq., R.N. — J.Brooke, esq.,ofPeckam, to Mary, relict 

 of J. Dowse, esq. — J. A. Bawerbank, esq., to Miss 

 Walton, of Wanstead — W. Palfrey, esq., to Frances.^ ' 

 daughter of R. Wood, esq., of Lambeth- | 



• DEATHS. 

 The Countess Dowager of Harcourt — The Rev. J. 

 Hyatt — Marianna, wife of J. Vivian, esq., of Cla- | 



verton, Somerset— 5.1, The Rev. T. Hart, M.A., 

 Vicar of Ringwood, Hants — At Ripley, Surrey, 82, 

 R. Boughton sen. esq. — Hannah, daughter of the 



Rev. G. Croft, D.D 74, R. Griffiths, esq Sarah, 



daughter of the Rev. D. T. SaUvay, LL.D.— «», 

 A. Girard, esq.— 79, Mrs. Crawley, relict of the late 

 J. Crawley, esq., of Stockwood, Bedfordshire— 31 , 

 Ellen, wife of W. M. Simonds, esq., of Whitehall, 

 Tottenham— 71, Sir R. Baker, bart., of Dunstable- 

 house, Surrey — At Mortlake, Elizabeth, widow of 

 the late E. Taylor, esq.— 5!l, At Kensington, A. 



Murray, esq W. Northey, esq., of Box, Wilts, 



M.P. for Newport, Cornwall — Mary Ann, daughter 



of the late .sir T. Lavie. K.C.B Mrs. Price, widow 



of the late T. Price, esq., M.P. for Radnorshire — 47, 

 A, Cameron, esq. — 77, W. Coles, esq,, Newington- 



green— At Camberwell, 62, A. Pellatt, esq 23, J. 



Farrar, esq. — 7H, C. Mills, esq., M.P. for Warwick 

 — J. Wilkinson, esq.— 74, Mrs. Hussey, relict of J. 

 Hussey, esq., of Richmond, Surrey — R. Trower, 



esq Robert, son of Maj.-Gen. Dighton — At Bromp- 



ton, 76, A. Learmouth, esei — Major W. Collins, 

 R.M. — 78, Catherine, widow of T. Forbes, esq., of 

 Clifton— Capt. J. White— 84, J. Hopre, Esq., of 

 Lambeth— 62, Capt. J. H. Akers— Capt. P. G. 

 Wolfe, R.N. C.B — 70, D. W. Ruddisnan, esq.,— 



68, J. Carter, esq Anne, relict of Admiral Sir J. 



Wallace — Mrs. Pillar, wife of J. Pillar, esq., of Lam- 

 beth—At Sunbury, G. Crompe, esq.— At Hammer- 

 smith, Elizabeth, wife of J. Ramsden, esq. — At 

 Pimlico, 83, G. Wilde, esq. — At Islington, 'J5, J. 

 Wilson, esq. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At Calcutta, Capt. G. Creville, to Miss Pearson, 

 daughter of the Advocate-general of Bengal— At St; 

 Roque, Andalusia, D. A. C. Gen. Spencer, to Faus- 

 tina Zais, niece of Gen. Zais — At Guernsey, the Rev, 

 M. Brock, to Catherine, daughter of the late D. 

 Tupper, esq. — At Stockholm, Mary Ann, daughter 

 of the Baron de Kantzow, to Baron Skemmelpen- 

 ninck Vander Orpe, Dutch charge d'affaires at that 

 court. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 

 At Calcutta, Emma, wife of E. Bird, esq. ; 28, 

 H. Manning jun., esq. ; 28, H. C. Darwall, esq. ; 

 .33, J. W. Carroll, esq., M.D. ; J. \V. Boyd, esq — 

 On his passage to Madras, Edgar, son of the Rev, J. 

 .Sieagram— At Prome, in the kingdom of Ava, Capt. 

 H. Parsons— At Gurrawarah, Ensign T. Irving— At 

 Mahattee, near Arracan, 23, Capt. Randall— Capt. 

 J. G. Proby, on his way from Cananore to Matos— 



