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POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. 
T. Cartwright, esq., now Secretary to the Le- 
gation at Munich, to be Secretary to the Embassy 
at the Netherlands.—G. Tierney, esq., attached to 
the Embassy at the Netherlands, to be Secretary © 
to the Legation at Munich.—His Majesty has con- 
ferred the honour of Knighhood upon Jeffery 
Wyatville, esq. 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON, ETC. 
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CHRONOLOGY. 
November 25.—A meeting of bankers, mer- 
chants, and others, held at the London Tavern, 
presided bythe Lord Mayor, for taking into con- 
sideration the destitute condition of the Spanish 
and Italian refugees, who were driven, for self- 
preservation, to seek an asylum in England, 
when a further liberal subscription of upwards of 
£2,000 was entered into. 
December 1.—The Recorder made his report of 
the convicts capitally convicted at the Old Bailey 
October sessions, to Privy Council, when four of 
them were ordered for execution December 8, 
— Two conyicts executed at the Old Bailey. 
2.—A Deputation of gentlemen connected with 
the Silk Trade waited on the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, at the Treasury, and held a long con- 
ference with him. 
4.—Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey. 
—At a meeting of the Waterloo Bridgg Com- 
pany, it appeared that the expenditure for the 
last half-year, including the 23d of August, 
amounted to £7,825. 9s. 2d.; received for tolls 
£7,243, 6s. 2d,, and for rents of vaults £382. 7s, 6d. 
5—Right Hon. R. Peel, Secretary of State, 
wrote to the Lord Mayor, complaining of the 
state of the gaol of Newgate, respecting the clas- 
sification and treatment of the prisoners, and call- 
ing his Lordship's immediate attention to the 
subject. 
— Orders for the Court going into mourning 
during three weeks, for the Dowager Empress of 
Russia. 
6.—News arrived at the Foreign Office from 
Lord Cowley, at Vienna, with the intelligence of 
the Russians having been obliged to raise the 
siege of Silistria. 
— The Lord Mayor ordered a circular to be 
transmitted to the Mayor, and other principal 
officers of corporations throughout England, in 
behalf of Subscriptions for the Spanish refugees. 
8.—Four conyicts executed at the Old Bailey. 
9.—His Majesty took up his residence at Wind- 
sor Castle. 
13.—Right Hon. R. Peel, Secretary of State, 
informed by letter, the several Lords-Lieutenant, 
“ that his Majesty’s government have determined 
to submit to Parliament a Bill for effecting some 
reduction in the Militia Staff.” 
14.—Court mourning commenced for the Queen 
Dowager of Saxony, for three weeks. 
15.—Sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when 24 
convicts received sentence of death ; a very con- 
siderable number were ordered for transportation 
for 14 and7 years (4 for life), and others to im- 
prisonment from two years down to seven days. 
16.—Parliament prorogued to Feb. 5., then to 
meet for dispatch of business. 
MARRIAGES. 
At Leeds, Mr. J.H. Wiffen' (the Quaker poet, 
and translator and biographer of Tasso), to Miss 
Whitehead.—At Durham, T. B. Fyler, esq., M.P. 
for Coventry, to Miss Dorothea Lucretia Light.— 
At North Aston, J. H. Slater, esq.,to Lady Louisa 
Augusta Scott, second daughter of Earl Clon- 
mell.—Henry Maxwell. esq., M.P. for Cavan, to 
the Hon. Anna Frances Hester Stapleton, youngest 
daughter of Lord Le Despencer.—At St. George’s, 
Hanover Square, the Right Hon, Charles Man- 
ners Sutton, Speaker of the House of Commons, 
to Mrs. Home Purves, widow of the late J.H. 
Purves, esq., of Purves, N. B.—Lieut.Col. Sir W. 
I. Herries, brother to the Right Hon. C. Herries, 
to Mary Frances, third daughter of J. Crompton, 
esq., of Esholt-hall, Yorkshire.—Rey. P. Hewett, 
son of General Sir G. Hewett, bart., to Anne, 
daughter of General Sir J. Duff.—At Otley, D. C. 
Wrangham, esq., son of Archdeacon Wrangham, 
and private seerctary to the Earl of Aberdeen, to 
Amelia, second daughter of the late W. R. Fawkes, 
esq.—At Edinburgh, J. Hope, jun., esq., writer to 
the signet, and son of the Lord President of the 
Court of Cession, to Elizabeth, daughter of Lord 
Justice Clark.—John Forbes, esq., M.P., eldest 
son of Sir Charles Forbes, M.P., to Jane, eldest 
danghter of H. L. Hunter, esq. 
DEATHS. 
In Canonbury-square, Mrs. M. Rivington, 74.— 
Rey. Charles Este, who, in conjunction with 
Major Topham and Mr, J. Bell, established the 
World newspaper.—At Portsea, Rey. D, Cruik- 
shank, 90.—At Beckenham, R. Lea, esq., many 
years Alderman of London.—At Parkerswell 
House, near Exeter, Mrs. Gifford, mother of the 
late Lord Gifford.—At Brighton, S. Rolleston, 
esq., many years assistant under secretary of 
state at the Foreign Oftice.x—At Kingston, Hon, 
Mrs. Lisle, sister of the late Marquess Cholmon- 
eley.—Miss Julia Burgess, daughter of the lated 
Sir J. Lamb, bart,—At Scrivelby-court, the Hon. 
and Rey. J. Dymoke, the King’s Champion; by 
his deputation, his son, H. Dymoke, esq., (now 
the cHnmpion) executed that office at the last 
coronation.—At Taunton, Mrs. Dundas, relict of 
the late Rear-Admiral Dundas, and sister to Lady 
Harris.—Captain Sir W. Hoste, bart., a distin- 
guished officer, who commenced his naval career 
under the immortal Nelson.—At Bath, General 
Ambrose, 75, formerly chamberlain to the Em- 
peror of Austria.—At Coombe Wood, the Right 
Hon. the Earl of Liverpool—Near Truro, Ad- 
miral Thomas Spry, 76.—At Pull-court, General 
W. Dowdeswell, formerly M.P. for Tewkesbury. 
—At Bath, Mrs. Priscilla Gurney, 74, minister of © 
