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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON, ETC. 
CHRONOLOGY. 
August 21.—Report of the Committee of the 
House of Commons published relative to their 
inquiry inte the manner of obtaining dead bodies 
for dissection. Their proposition is to follow the 
example of France, and appropriate for dissection 
the bodies of those who die under public charge, 
or who, when dead, are not claimed by their 
friends. 
25.—Parliament prorogued to October 30. 
26.—A beautiful new Gothic chapel consecrated 
at Kennington, called St. Mary, Lambeth ; it is 
intended to hold about 2,000 persons ; and as auxi- 
liary to the chapel, a Sunday school is to be esta- 
blished. 
27.—The late Archbishop of Canterbury’s will 
proved in Doctor’s Commons ; personal property 
taken at £180,000!!! The value of the nomina- 
tion to the Registry of the Prerogative Court, se- 
cured to his Grace by an Act of Parliament only 
a few days before his death, estimated at upwards 
of £100,000 more. 
- 23.—Workmen commenced pulling down Co- 
yent Garden Market, in order to proceed with the 
building of a new one immediately. 
— Duke of Cambridge left town on his return 
to Hanover. 
— Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank 
“of England had a conference with the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, relative tothe disposition of the 
funds arising from the deposits of the Savings’ 
Banks. 
— Merchants of Liverpool trading to the Bra- 
zils, memorialized the Admiralty for protection 
against pirates infesting the South American 
seas, 
September 5.—Parliamentary Paper published, 
containing a table of the number of persons em- 
ployed in all public offices, and the gross amount 
of their salaries in 1827; the number is stated to 
be 22,912, and the money paid them, £2,788,907 !* 
8.—The Jewish year 5589, ushered in at sun- 
set with the preparatory rites observed on such 
occasions by the Israelites resident in the metro- 
polis assembled at their synagogues. The Feast 
of Trumpets early the next morning was cele- 
brated, in commemoration of Abraham’s offering 
up his son. 
' — First stone laid of a Meeting House for the 
Society of Friends at Stoke Newington. The ex- 
’ * In the reign of George I. the army consisted 
of 18,500 men; and “the whole peace establish- 
ment,” says Sir J. Sinclair, “ cost £2,583,000.” 
So that the present corps of placemen exceeds 
that number by 4,000, and their salaries amount 
to more than the whole of the peace establishment 
of that reign !!! 
pense is estimated at £10,000, and it is expected 
to be one of the handsomest buildings, as a place 
of worship, that has yet been erected by that re- 
spectable body. 
11.—Old Bailey Sessions commenced. 
12,—Adyices from Lisbon announce the termi- 
nation of the trial of Sir John M. Doyle and Mr, 
Young. Sir J. M. Doyle to be banished Portugal 
within eight days, and Mr. Young to find secu- 
rities for not again interfering in the political 
affairs of the country. 
13.—Notice sent to Lioyd’s, from the Foreign 
Office, that the French Government had ordered 
an additional naval force to blockade Algiers. 
20.—Sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when 
24 prisoners received sentence of death (one of 
them only 15 years of age!) and above 100 were 
ordered for transportation. 
MARRIAGES. 
D. Mackeller, esq., to Maria, daughter of 
Count Meneghetopulo, of Zante.—Lieut.-Colonel 
Dumaresq, to Elizabeth Sophia, daughter of the 
late Hon. A. R, B. Danvers.—Rey. A. P. Clay- 
ton, son of Sir W. Clayton, bart., to Georgiana 
Elizabeth, daughter of the late Dean of Salisbury 
and Lady E. Talbot, and niece to the Duke of 
Beaufort.—Lord Clarina, to Susan Elizabeth, 
youngest daughter of Hugh Barton, esq., Battle- 
abbey. 
DEATHS. 
Hon. H. F. Stanhope, only brother to the Earl 
of Harrington.—Hon. and Rey, A. G. Legge, Dean 
of Lincoln.—93, Very Rey. Dr. R. D. Waddilove, 
Dean of Ripon.—Sir Henry Torrens, Adjutant- 
General of the Forces,—At Kensington, 79, T. A. 
Grindal, esq.— Her Grace Susan, Duciess of 
Manchester.—In Regent’s-park, Mrs. C. A. D. 
Chapman, daughter of the Bishop of Sodor and 
Man.—At Blackheath, the Very Rey. Dr. G. Gor- 
don, Dean of Lincoln.—Lady Montgomery, wife 
of Sir J. Montgomery, bart., M.P. Peebles.—In 
Myddleton-square, Mrs. T. Dibdin.—Lieut.-Col. 
Forsteen.—Ann, relict of Major General Faw- 
cett.—90, Sir A. S. Namond, bart.; late comp- 
troller of the navy, 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Paris, Dr. Gall, the phrenologist.—In Sweden, 
Count Frederic Wachtmoister, lately in the Bri- 
tish naval seryice.—At Stockholm, 85, Professor 
Thimberg.—At Dieppe, Miss Georgiana Drew, 
daughter of the late Lady Susan Douglas.—At 
Sydney, New South Wales, the Hon, C. Thorsby, 
member of the legislative council.— At Rotterdam, 
the Rey. H. Randolph. 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES ; 
, WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
No less than 47 shopkeepers (many of them 
respectable! the Tyne Mercury says) were 
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fined, August 25, in the Mayor's Chamber, at 
Newcastle, for their scales being not just, or their 
weights deficient, 
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