1828.] 
ness,” lately published. — At Lynn, Mrs, Ann 
Wannack, 99. 
WALES. 
Within the last 10 years only one individual of 
the Roman Catholic persuasion was to be found 
in Wrexham and vicinity ; but the number now 
residing in the neighbourhood has been deemed 
sufficient to call for the erection of a place of 
worship.—Accordingly one built by subscription, 
with the co-operation of the Protestants, has been 
opened, and dedicated to St. David. The chapel 
was completely filled by the gentry, and respect- 
able inbabitants of the town and neighbourhood. 
High Mass (one of Mozart’s) was celebrated by 
the Bishop of Eurofrum, assisted by about 20 
priests, all in grand costume. After the service a 
dinner was given, at which upwards of 50 ladies 
and gentlemen attended, when the usual loyal 
toasts were given. 
On Saturday week, as the Hazlebeach ferry- 
boat was crossing to Pembroke Dock, under sail, 
with two passengers, it was overtaken by a tre- 
mendous whirlwind, and which was observed by 
the boatman, before it reached him, to draw up 
the water to a height of between 30 and 40 feet. 
Before he could lower his foresail, it was shivered 
to pieces, the boat whirled round and sunk, the 
water falling upon them, asif from a water-spout. 
The two men seized an oar each ; the woman the 
sprit, with one hand, having her basket firmly 
held with the other ; they thus buoyed themselves 
up for about fifteen minutes, when they were re- 
lieved from their perilous situation by a boat that 
had, on discovering the accident, shoved off from 
his Majesty's dock-yard.— Shrewsbury Chronicle, 
July il. 
SCOTLAND. 
The first railway coach constructed in this 
country, for the conveyance of passengers, made a 
trial journey in the neighbourhood of Airdrie, 
lately. It is dragged Ly one horse, and is to ply 
on the Kirkintilloch railways in carrying passen- 
gers to boats on the canal, It is meant to carry 
24 passengers, but started in high style with no 
less than 40 within and without. 
There is likely to be a source of great rivalry 
between the Scotch manufacturers and the Irish, 
if the duty on coals should be taken off in Ire- 
land, as it is well known, that both in Dublin and 
Belfast, the woollen and cotton manufactures are 
making considerable progress. In consequence, 
however, of the repeal of all protecting duties in 
Ireland, and the great improvement in steam 
navigation, the Irish manufacturers are very 
hardly pressed by the close and direct competition 
which they bave to sustain with the manufacturers 
of Glasgow and other places, This competition, 
the deputation from Ireland that waited lately on 
the Duke of Wellington (see Curono.oey), stated, 
they ‘were willing to encounter upon terms of 
perfect equality; but that this equality does not at 
present exist, inasmuch as coal, whichis now so 
indispensable in every department of their opera- 
tions, is, in Glasgow, &c., wholly free of duty, and 
in Dublin and Belfast subject to very considerable 
taxes,—although in Glasgow and Leeds coal is 
worth five shillings the ton, in Ireland, owing to 
its weneral searcity, it cannot be purebased, ex- 
elusive of duty, for less than thirteen or fourteen 
shillings. The Duke entered into the question at 
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 
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considerable length, and concluded by promising 
the deputation, that during the approaching recess 
he would cause a minute inquiry to be made into 
the whole subject, with a view to granting the 
relief sought for. He further stated, that the 
question of the coal trade of England, and espe- 
cially that of the port of London, was about to be 
very fully considered by Government, as he was 
personally aware that abuses existed, and that the 
present system tended to enhance the price of 
coals, especially in London, in a most unreasonable 
degree. 
Married.] At Balgay, Sir William Scott, of 
Ancrum, Bart., to Miss Anderson.—Sir Paul 
Bagshot, to Miss Jane Maxwell, of Brediland, 
Renfrew. 
Died] At Hallbeath, near Dumfernline, John 
M‘Lean, collier, 101 ; his mental faculties re- 
mained unimpaired till within a few days of his 
death.—Dr. Andrew Duncan, 83, senior professor 
of theory of medicine in the University of Fdin- 
burgh, and first physician to his Majesty, in Scot- 
land.—At Ran-Keillour, General the Hon. C, 
Hope, of Craig-hall. 
IRELAND. 
From the unprecedented occurrence of a Ro- 
man Catholic attempting to sit in Parliament, 
the attention of all the inhabitants of this country 
has been wholly directed to the election of a ree 
presentative fov the county of Clare, occasioned 
by its late inember, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, having 
accepted of the offices of Treasurer of the Navy, 
and President of the Board of Trade and Pianta- 
tions. The candidates were Mr. V. Fitzgerald, 
and Mr, O‘Connell. At the close of the election 
several freeholders lodged a protest against the 
return of Mr. O‘Connel, who had gained the 
Majority, on the ground of his being a Catholic, 
upon which the assessor said :—‘* If we had the 
power, T would advise the High Sheriff to give 
one return for Mr. O’Connel, and another for Mr. 
Fitzgerald ; but that course is not open to a 
Sheriff in Ireland, and we are not permitted to 
make a double return to the King’s writ. We 
must select between one candidate and another 
and if Mr, O’Connell shall have, at the close of 
the poll, a majority of qualified votes, I will advise 
the Sheriff to declare him duly elected. But in 
this novel situation, I will advise the Sheriff to 
state, on the face of his return to the writ, that 
after having given notice to the freeholders, two 
candidates were proposed, Mr. V. Fitzgerald, a 
Protestant, and Mr. O’Connell, a Catholic; and 
that the latter announced that he was a Catholic ; 
and further, that a protest against his return was 
lodged by a certain number of freeholders; but 
that Mr. O’Connell had a majority of qualified 
freeholders at the termination of the poll. What 
responsibility the gentleman thus elected may 
incur, for, inthe words of the Act, presuming to 
appear in the House of Commons without taking 
the oaths, is beyond my office to inquire,” 
The High Sheriff announced the gross poll to 
be—for Mr. O’Connell, 2,067 ; and for Mr, Fitz- 
gerald, 982; and declared that Daniel O’Connell, 
esq., was therefore duly elected as a Knight to 
represent the county in Parliament. This elec- 
tion proceeded and terminated without drunken- 
ness, and without disorder of any description 
whatever. The leaders and the priests said the 
word, and all was attention, calmness, and good- 
will; no man of any party was molested, 
