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Aug. 14.—Despatches arrived at the Colonial 
Office from Demerara ; the colony is in a flourish- 
ing state, 
— The new church at Hammersmith conse- 
crated. 
16.—A deputation from Lloyd’s had an audience 
with Lord Aberdeen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 
relative to the detention and imprisonment of Mr. 
Young, at Lisbon, when his lordship said remon- 
strances had been made already both in the case 
of Mr. Young and Sir John Doyle, without effect, 
but he had notified to the de facto government of 
Portugal, that if the proper steps were not imme- 
diately tuken in respect to those gentlemen, it 
must be prepared for consequences of the most 
serious nature; as ina case like this, where the 
liberty and rights of British subjects are invaded, 
His Majesty’s government were determined that 
they would not be trified with. 
20.—Viscount Strangford left town on a mission 
to the Emperor of Brazil. 
MARRIAGES. 
' The Karl of Chichester to Lady Mary Brude- 
nell, fourth daughter of the Earl of Cardigan.— 
Earl Brownlow to the Lady Emma Edgeumbe, 
daughter of Earl of Mount Edgeumbe,—Captain 
H. Hope to Jane Sophia, daughter of Admiral Sir 
H. Sawyer.—T, M. Goodluke, esq., to Emilia 
Maria, sister to Sir E. Baker, bart., and niece to 
the Duke of Leinster.—J. C. Hobhouse, esq., 
M.P. Westminster, to Lady Julia Hay, sister to 
the Marquis of Tweedale.—Hon. and Rey. E. S. 
Keppel, third son of Earl of Albemarle, to Lady 
Maria Clements, eldest daughter of Earl of Lei- 
trim.—Captain Temple, second son of Sir Gren- 
ville Temple, bart, to Jane Dorothea, daughter of 
J. Marshall, esq., M.P. York.—W. A. Broad- 
head, esq., to Louisa, second daughter of the Hon. 
Sir C. Paget.—Digby Neave, esq., eldest son of 
Sir T. Neave, bart., to the Hon, Mary Arundell, 
daughter to the late Lord Arundell.—R. J, Palk, 
esq., second son of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, 
hart., to Harriette, daughter of G. Hibbert, esq. 
—J, E. Willis, esq., to Sophia Stuart, fourth 
Incidents, Marriages, &c. 
[Serr 
dauzhter of the late Lieut.-General R. Bruce,— 
Rey. W. D. Veitch to Miss Rait, grand-daughter 
of W. Joliffe, esq., M.P.—J. R. Majendie, esq., 
youngest son of the Bishop of Bangor, to Miss 
H. M. Dering.—Hon. J. Shoolbred to Harriet, 
daughter of Sir H. Loud, bart.—T. T. Gurdon, 
esq., to Henrietta, eldest daughter of N. W. R. 
Colburne, esq., M.P. 
DEATHS. 
Sir James Wynne B. de Bathe, bart.—Right 
Hon. Dennis Browne, uncle to the Marquis of 
Sligo.—83, Rev. T. Hillyard ; who was more than 
45 years pastor of the Independent Chureh at Ol- 
ney.—Sir Patrick Macgregor, vice-president of 
the College of Surgeons, serjeant surgeon to the 
King, and to the late Duke of York,—Jacob Bo- 
sanquet, esq., of Broxbourne, many years a Direc- 
tor of the East-India Company.—At Chislehurst, 
Elizabeth, wife of Sir H. Jenner, advocate-gene- 
ral.—Colonel the Hon. E. Acheson, brother to 
Earl of Gosford.—Sir F. T. Morshead, bart.— 
Mr. Horne, of the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, 
the principal coach-proprietor in the kingdom ; 
he employed at one time upwards of 1,200 horses 
in that speculation.—In the Regent’s-park, by a 
fall from his horse, Simon Taylor, esq., one of 
the Bank Directors.—Mrs. Benfield, relict of the 
late Paul Benfield, esq.—Hon. J. C. Parsons, se- 
cond son of the Earl of Ross.—A. Whitehead, 
esq., formerly secretary to the Transport Board, 
—Major-General R. Douglas. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At the Hague, 113, Mrs, Tierney; her father 
lived to the age of 105, and her uncle to 113,—At 
Missery (France) a woman aged 100, — At St. 
Omers, G. Allan, esq., M.A., F.S.A., and late 
M.P. for Durham.—At Paris, the Duke de San 
Carlos, ambassador from Spain to France,—At 
Neuille, near Paris, the Duke of Penthievre, son 
of the Duke of Orleans.—Lately, at Sierra Leone, 
the enterprising traveller Major Denham.—On his 
passage from the West Indies, J. C, Mills, esq., 
late president of the island of Nevis. 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
An Act of Parliament has just been passed for 
establishing a new harbour on the north-east 
coast at Seaham, within five miles of Sunderland. 
A fine specimen of the Sphinx Atropos, or 
Death’s-head Hawk Moth, was caught in Old 
Elvet, in Durham, a few days ago. It measures 
between the extremities of the wings 5 inches, 
and the length of the body, is 24 inches, It is 
covered with a kind of down, and on the back is a 
mark resembling a death's head, from which it 
derives its name. 
In removing the old battlement of the Fram- 
wellgate Bridge, at Durham, a few days ago, a 
large living toad was found in the very middle of 
the wall, where it must have been confined for a 
long series of years. The bridge is of a very an- 
cient date; but bow long the late battlement had 
been erected we are unable to state. 
At Durham assizes, Mr. Justice Bayley con- 
gratulated the grand jury on the favourable state 
of the calendar, which was calculated to give 
them little trouble.* The criminal business was 
unusually trifling, there being only 7 prisoners. 
At the Northumberland assizes, 6 prisoners were 
recorded for death; one of them a young woman 
of 17 for house-breaking ; a few transported and 
imprisoned, 
On the 4th of August, a meeting was held in 
* The present summer assizes have presented, 
at the different courts, a considerable diminution 
in the average quantity of crime. There has not 
been for some years a general gaol delivery, at 
which the judges congratulated the grand juries 
so generally on the diminished number of crimi- 
uals, although in some parts of the country the 
proportion has been greater of heinous offences, 
suchas murder, and the most deprayedly atrocious 
assaults upon females of the tenderest age !!!! 
