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labour for twelve months, 19 for six months, 1 for 
four months and whipping, 2 for four months, 19 
for three months, and 3 for two months. 
July 3.—The Lords of the Admiralty have made a 
grant of £1000 to Capt. Hayes, R.N., for the bene- 
fits of his improvements in ship-building. 
A very handsome award has been made to H.M.’s 
ship Victor, for her capture of slave vessels- on the 
coast of Africa Capt. Woolcombe’s share is report- 
ed to be nearly £4,000. 
A meeting of the proprietors of Drury-laneTheatre 
took place, when Mr. Calcraft stated that the whole 
debt due by Mr. Elliston to the theatre was £5,700; 
of which £3,000 was actual loss during the last sea- 
son. It was announced that Mr. Bish had become 
the lessee of the theatre for fourteen years, at a rent 
of £11,250. Mr. Price, the American manager, has 
since taken the bargain off his hands, on receiving 
the £2,000 deposited by Mr. Bish. 
4.—Mr. Granville Sharpe’s bust was placed in the 
Council room at Guildhall, by Mr. Chantrey. The 
following inscription is on the slab: ‘ Granville 
Sharpe: to whom England owes the glorious verdict 
of her highest Court cf Law, that the Slave who 
sets his Foot on British Ground becomes at that 
instant Free.” 
A seaman, belonging to the Glasgow collier, was 
sentenced by the Thames Police to six weeks’ impri- 
sonment, for having used threats and intimidations 
to prevent another seaman working at a lower rate 
of wages than ‘* the Union” combination. 
An inquisition was taken at the London Hospital, 
Mile-end road, on the body of Mr. J. Atwood, jun., 
of Will-street, who died the preceding Sunday of 
hydrophobia ; he had been bitten slightly by a fa- 
vourite terrier about three months ago. The dog 
became il] and was tied up, and died, from the effects 
of poison, as the family supposed, not having the 
least idea of hydrophobia. 
6.—Sir Peter Laurie sworn into the office of Alder- 
man (at Guildhall) of Aldersgate ward, in the room 
of Alderman Cox, deceased. 
7.—In a late Court ‘of Admiralty Lord Stowell 
awarded £9,000 salvage to Messrs. Bell, for raising 
by machinery a vessel sunk off Whitstable, laden 
with brandy, valued at £14,000, which the owners 
had vainly attempted to recover for twelve months. 
At a Court-Martial, held on board the Britannia 
at Plymouth, Mr. G. Hannaford (Master of the 
North Star) was dismissed His Majesty’s service for 
gross negligence, while conducting the North Star 
into Plymouth Sound, in running that ship upon the 
Break water. 
12.—The Parliament prorogued by the King-in- 
Council, to the 24th of August. 
20.—The Goldsmith’s Company gave a grand din- 
ner to those of His Majesty's ministers who are in 
town; AldermanGarratt, master-warden, in the chair. 
His Majesty has ordered another £1,000 to be re- 
mitted to the Committee for the distressed Spital- 
fields folks. 
The Lord Mayor held a Court of Common Coun- 
cil at Guildhall, at which a deed for securing to the 
Lords of the Treasury the repayment of a further 
advance of £30,000 for rebuilding London Bridge, 
was sealed. « 
21.—Lady Erskine waited on the Lord Mayor at 
the Mansion House, soliciting his protection, as she 
was reduced to absolute starvation; a statement 
which the trustees of the annuity granted by his 
Majesty flatly contradicted. 
News arrived with an account of the loss of the 
Maria mail-boat, with the Methodist missionaries on 
board, off the island of Antigua ; every soul perished 
but Mrs. Jones, who stated that had she not have 
drank salt water she must have died also. 
Marriages and Deaths. 
[Auc. 
MARRIAGES. 
The hon. Mr.. Moreton, son of Lord Ducie, to 
the hon. Miss Dutton, daughter of Lord Sherborne ; 
Colonel Austen, to Miss C. C. Manning—At Glenlee, 
the Chief of Clanranald, to Lady Ashburton; C. J. 
Berguer, esq., to Miss E. Cave; Bright, the eldest 
son of William Smith, esq-, of Kensington Gore, to 
Mary Ann, second daughter of the late G. A. Nash, 
esq-, of Finsbury-square; Abel Smith, esq., M.P., 
to I'rances Anne, youngest daughter of General Sir 
H. Calvert, bart.; Robt. Gosling, esq-. to Georgina 
Vere, daughter of the Right Hon. J. Sullivan; Sir 
C. Smith, bart., of Suttons, Essex, to Mary, se- 
cond daughter of W. Gosling, esq., Portland Place. 
DEATHS. 
At Lambeth, 80, the relict of the late Dr. R. 
Mant; 76, James Bellamy, esq., late of Tower-hill; 
71, the Earl of Chichester, in Stratton-street, Pic- 
eadilly—At Blackheath, Miss Dee: she was lady int 
waiting upon the Princess Sophia Matilda; she had 
attained her 80th year, and had been in the family 
46 years—At Woolwich, Miss J. Dickson, daughter 
of Sir A. Dickson—At High Wood, Sir Stamford 
Rafiles, late Lieut.-Governor of Bencoolen and Sin- 
capore; Bunce Curling, esq., of Baker-street, Port- 
man-square; 80, Mr. R. Williams, Hackney; T. 
Butterworth, esq., late M.P. for Dover. His 
death, which happened June 30, was occasioned by 
the fatigue he had undergone in his unsuccessfut 
contest for Dover for the present Parliament; 73, 
John Farquhar, esq., late owner of Fonthitl Abbey— 
At London, Lieut. J. Sinclair, lth N.I., from the 
effects of the Arracan fever; he was the 6th son of 
Sir John Sinclair, bart.—At Ham Common, Evelyn 
P. Medows, esq., nephew of the last Duke of King- 
ston—In Green Park Place, Bath, Mary, Dowager 
Countess of Kintore; Lady Harriette, wife of Sir 
J. Chetwode, bart., and eldest daughter of the late 
Earl of Stamford; 74, Mr. J. Roberts, he accom- 
panied Sir Joseph Bankes in his first voyage with 
Capt. Cook round the world, and in his voyage to 
Iceland; 82, W. Vale, esq., at his house In Monta- 
gue Place—At Kensington, Mrs. Mattocks, late of 
Covent Garden Theatre—In Bolton-street, Picca- 
dilly, Lady Georgina Grenfell, eldest daughter of 
the Earl and Countess of Sefton—At the Bell Inn, 
Barnley Moor, Lady Saltoun, daughter of the late 
Lord Chance)lor Thurlow; her ladyship was sud- 
denly taken ill while travelling, and died of apo- 
plexy; Taylor Coombe, esq., keeper of the medals 
at the British Museum; the Right Hon. Henry de 
la Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, at Car- 
marthen, on his way to Buxton—At West Cowes, 
the hon.SophiaGeorgiana Flower, youngest daughter 
of Lord Viscount Ashbrook—At Westbourne, Miss 
Anguish, sister ta the Duchess Dowager of Leeds. 
MARRIAGE ABROAD. 
Lord Dudley Stuart, to a niece of the late Napo- 
leon Buonaparte, 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
Brig. Robt. M’Dowall, Lieut.-Col. com. of Ist 
European reg., and commanding 2d brig. of Madras 
troops at Ava, was killed at Wattegoon, near Prome, 
Nov. 16 last; Dr. Archibald Lang, Surgeon Royal 
Naval Hospital, Jamaica, April 21, from having 
accidentally punctured his finger dissecting a dead 
body in the hospital; 86, Christian Horsford, relict 
of the hon. J Horsford, of the island of Antigua— 
In April last, at Jamaica, Mr. Osborne Cross; Mr. 
J. Buchanan, late merchant of Ostend—At Berne, 
Switzerland, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Mosley Power, K-C.B. 
and K.T.S. 
