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October 1.—One hundred pounds was voted, by 
the subscribers at Lloyd’s, to a poor fisherman in 
Newfoundland, who had saved the crew of a ves- 
sel wrecked on a voyage from Ireland to Canada, 
and subsisted 152 survivors for some time!!! 
— Aletter to the Chairman of the Committee 
at Lloyds from the Foreigh Office, informing him 
that His Majesty’s Government had received in- 
formation, that it is the intention of the Emperor 
of Russia to establish the blockade of the Darda- 
nelles. 
— Proclamation issued by the Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland for the suppressing of illegal meetings. 
~ 6. The Queen of Portugal arrived in London, 
and took up her residence at Grillon’s hotel, 
Albermarle Street. 
8—The London University opened; nearly a 
thousand persons were present in the theatre of 
anatomy. 
9.—The Clyde frigate, of 46 guns, launched at 
Woolwich. 
13.—News arrived from Wurtemberg of the 
death of the Dowager Queen, Oct. 6. 
14.—Orders issued from the Lord Chamber- 
lain’s Office for the court’s going into mourning. 
Same day, the Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, 
issued orders from the Herald’s College, ordering 
a@ general mourning. 
MARRIAGES. 
"At St. George’s, Bloomsbury, T. Coventry, es4., 
to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. Justice Little- 
dale.—Miss Hanson, ci-devant Countess of Ports- 
mouth, to Mr. Alder, whosename occurred during 
the lunacy inquisition of the noble lord, and dur- 
ing the subsequent proceedings in that commis- 
sion.—Colonel Henry White, M.P., Dublin, to 
Eleanor, eldest danghter of W. S. Dempster, 
esq.—Lieut.-Col. R. Beauchamp, son of the late 
Sir T, B, Proctor, bart, to Miss Sophia Ball.—At 
St. James’s, R. Talbot, esq., to the Hon. Mrs. E. 
Bouverie.—At Mary-le-bone, T, Vardon, esq., to 
Laura Anne, niece to the late Sir Martin Stapyl- 
ton, bart.—J. Campbell, esq,, to Grace Elizabeth. 
third daughter of Lieut.-Gen, Hay, Lieut.-Gover- 
nor of Edinburgh-castle. 
DEATHS. 
At Kingston-house, the residence of the Earl of 
Listowell, Catherine Bridget, Viscountess Ennis- 
more, relict of his lordship’s eldest son, whom she 
surviyed but one year. Her ladyship was sister 
of the late, and aunt of the present, Lord Clon- 
brook.—Rey. T, H. Backhouse, brother to Mr, 
Backhouse, under secretaryfof state for foreign 
Incidents, Marriages, &c. 
[Nov. 
-affairs.—At Streatham, Rev. H. Hill, chancellor 
of the choir of Hereford Cathedral.—Right Hon. 
John Thomas Erskine, Earl of Mar.—At Bromp- 
ton, 71, Mrs, M. A. Beckles, sister to the late J. 
Beckles, attorney-general of Barbadoes.—-Eliza- 
beth Catherine, lady of Sir James Stuart, bart.— 
Sir George Grey, bart., commissioner of Ports- 
mouth Dock-yard.—G. Rennie, esq., the ccle- 
brated agriculturist, and brother to the late John 
Rennie. esq.—At Hampstead, at an advanced age, 
Mr. Heaviside, the celebrated surgeon.—W. H. 
Ware, esq,, many years conductor of the orchestra 
at Covent Garden.—27, Mr. R. P. Bonnington; 
he was an eminent artist, and his remains were 
followed to the grave by the president and other 
members of the Royal Academy.—In Regent- 
street, at her father’s house, 17, Mlle. Verney, 
whose beauty had been mischieyously bruited 
about; she died of a fever, brought on by the 
grief occasioned by the annoyances sustained by 
her father from the conduct of the populace, and 
from the want of an efficient police !!!—Lady Lis- 
ton, wife of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Liston, 
formerly His Majesty’s ambassador to Constanti- 
nople.—81, Sir T. Hanmer, bart.—Maurice Jones, 
esq., high steward of Montgomery.—65, the Rev. 
T. Powell; he officiated 35 years as curate of 
Sedgley.—At Aswarley-house, 66, Sir Thomas 
Whichote, bart. 
MARRIAGES ABROAD. 
At Florence, Count G. B. de Walhslatt, grand- 
son to the late Field Marshal Prince Blucher, to 
Madeline, second daughter of the late Lord Chief 
Justice Dallas.—At Hamburgh, in presence of the 
British Consul, G. Anfrere, esq.,to Mlle, Caroline 
Wehbrtmann.—At Paris, British Ambassador’s, 
Eugene Ibert, esq., son of the Rev, P. Bert, Modé- 
rateur des Vallées, to Miss H. Wallinger. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
Her Majesty Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Prin- 
cess Royal of England, and Dowager Queen of 
Wurtemberg.—At Paris, 75, Thomas Thompson, 
esq., banker of Hull; he had been M.P. for Mid- 
hurst several years.—At Geneya, the Hon. and 
Rev. H. A. Bores.—At Genoa, the lady of Sir H. 
Bunbury, bart., daughter of General Fox, and 
niece of the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox.—At 
Naples, W. T. Honeyman, esq.—At Paris, W. A. 
Madocks, esq., of Tanyr-Alt, Carnarvon, many 
years M.P. for Boston.—At Montauban, General 
Count Andreossi, formerly ambassador from Na- 
poleon to the British nation. 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
The exhibition of pictures, by the ancient mas- 
ters, from the collections of the nobility and 
gentry of Neweastle and neighbourhood, was 
opened October 8. 
The aggregate amount of steam-engines, ashore 
snd afloat, in Durham and Northumberland, ex- 
ceeds the strength of 20,009 horses. The engine 
atthe Tyne Main Colliery is 200 horse power, it 
works three sets of pumps, and lifts from the 
depth of 47 fathoms upwards of 2,000 gallons of 
Water per minute. 
High Main coal seam, in the county of Northum- 
land took fire, and continued to burn for 30 
years. x 
Arrangements are making for nepali, Sun- 
derland theatre on a large scale. 
be 
About 150 years ago, the — 
