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1826.] 
The first annual meeting of the exeter Mendicity 
Society was held at the Guildhall July 25, when it 
appeared by the report, that 1,048 cases had been 
investigated, and the persons relieved. 
Aug.1. At Beer and Seaton the sea presented an 
extraordinary degree of convulsion, and the tide 
ebbed and flowed so rapidly, that a large schoo- 
ner was suddenly left aground; in a few momenis 
after-she was again floated by the tide, which came 
in with such violence as to excite apprehensions that 
she would be thrown on the pier-head; and this was 
repeated several times. 
Married.) At Berry Ponneroy, J. Lukin, esq., to 
Miss E. B. Farwe—At Tiverton, W.J. Hancock, 
€sq., to Miss M. A. Haydon. 
Died.) At Lawhitton, the Rev. C. Marshallk—At 
Washfield, 89, Miss V/orth—At Plymouth, the Hon. 
Capt. R. Rodney. of H. M.'s ship Dryad; Capt. 8. 
Gordon, of the Dwarf cutter—At Stoke, 79, Mr. 
Thomas — At Devonport, 81, Mrs. Lewis— At 
Ashton, 71, A. Hawkins, esq. 
CORNWALL, 
A dreadful fire, occasioned by the carelessness of 
some -boys in letting off squibs, &c., has nearly 
destroyed the village of Trevennock, near Penzance. 
The loss is estimated. at £2,000 and no part of the 
property insured. 
At the Assizes held at Bodwin, sentence of death 
recorded against three—imprisonment, nine. 
SUFFOLK. 
Married.| At Worstead, Rey. Z. Trivett, to Mrs. 
Sunstead—At Lowestoff, W. C. Worthington, esq., 
to Miss Scctt. 
Died.) At Ipswich, 78, J. Viel, esq. 
WALES, 
At Denbigh Assizes, sentence of death recorded 
against cne—transportation, two— imprisonment, 
one.—At Flintshire Assizes nct a single prisoner for 
trial; the High Sheriff in consequence presented the 
judges, the barristers, and the officers of the Court 
with white gloves. 
Miss Maergaretta Maria Downes of , Fir-court, 
Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire, underwent (July 
24) the 109th operation of tapping, whigh she sus- 
tained with wondexful. fortitude—sixteen quarts of 
water were extracted. 
Married.). F. R. Price, esq., of Bryn-y-Pys, Flint- 
shire, to Eiiza, daughter of the Rev. R. B. Burton 
Ph lipson—D. S. Davies, esq., of Poutre, near Car- 
digan, to Miss BE. M. Philipps, of Williamston, 
Pembrokeshire—R. Jones, eds Dinbren Hall, Lan- 
gellen, to Miss E. Wood, of Bursiem. 
| Died.) At Lianfyllin, Mr. J.Jones, known by his 
bardic appellation of Mylin—At Llangollen, Miss L. 
E. Robertson—At Aberiswith, 73, Middleton Jones, 
of Penybent Court, Radnorshire—At Llianbedrog, 
Mrs. Williams, wife of Rev. Dr. P. Williams, 
SCOTLAND. 
The Grand Highland Road is in rapid progress 
lowards completion, and is expected to be finished in 
the course of the present year; it will open a direct 
communication between the north and the south 
—from Glasgow, Sterling, and Crieff, on to Inver- 
ness; and the line of it runs through some of the 
boldest and most beautiful scenery of the central 
Highlands of Perthshire. This great work has been 
undertaken by the heritors for public accommoda- 
tion, without aid of any sort, beyond their own 
individual subscriptions. Ags this line to Inverness 
will, by coming through Carlisle and Glasgow, 
shorten the distance from London by fifty miles, 
there can be but little doubt of its being made the 
principal Jine.of communication. 
The Comet steam-packet has at length been hauled 
upon the beach ; it was a complete wreck. : 
The foundation-stone of an elegant church, for 
Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 
$51 
the use of the United Associate Congregation, has 
been laid at Leith, as well as at Roslin, fora new 
chapel of ease, with all the honours of masonry. } / 
The ladies of Edinburgh have raised £400 for the 
manufacturers, bya fourth sale of their fancy works 
at the Hopetcwn rooms. 
At the last meeting at Paisley, it appeared that 
only £1,700 remained—that the weekly expenditure 
was £500, and that within the last two weeks the 
number of applicants had increased by 180. The 
chairman stated that he had weekly communications 
with H. M.’s ministers, who were averse to give a 
government grant. 
The ministers and magistrates of Haddington and 
Batho, have published commendatory reports of the 
Burgh and Batho Schools. The examinations took 
place August 3 and 4. The Lord Provost and ma- 
gistrates of Edinburgh have likewise examined the 
different classes of the High School, the Edinburgh 
Academy, the Scottish Military and Naval Acade- 
my, the Leith High School, &c. &c.; and the stu- 
dents went through their exercises in a style which 
did honourto themselves and teachers—When will a7? 
the public schools in England be brought to similar 
attention on the part of its magistrates and ministers 
or other qualified persons. Such proceedings would 
relive themselves from the degradation in which Mr. 
Brougham found them. 
Married.) At Edinburgh, J. Crawford, esq ,to Miss 
M, Balfour—At Kilravock Castle, Cosmo Innes, 
esq., to Isabella, eldest daughter of H. Rose, esq.— 
At Springland, W. Fraser, esq., to Miss M. Sande- 
man—At the Mause of Craie, J. Marshall, esq., to 
Miss M. Tod—At Edinburgh, Stair Stewart, of 
Physgill and Glasserton, esq., to Ellen, daughter 
of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart., of 
Utbster. 
Died.) At Edinburgh, 75, M. A. Watson; hehad 
been fifty-three years in the some coach-work He 
was of the firm of Watson, Reid, and Cc.—At 
Elderslie, 113, Hugh Shaw; he fermerly served in 
the 42d Regt., and till within the Jast eighteen 
months, walked seven miles daily, and was shame- 
fully suffered to gain his subsistence by begging— 
William Gilchrist, eldest Bailie of Edinburgh—Mrs. 
L. Ryder wife of Mr. Ryder, manager of the 
Caledonian Theatre—At Cargilfield, Miss J. R. 
Hope, daughter of Licut.-Gen. Sir I. Hope, G.C.H. 
—At Pitlessie, R. Grahem, esq., familiarly known 
by the term ‘ Laird."—At Tullibole, Lady Mon- 
criet¥ Wellwood—aAt Langton House, ‘Berwickshire, 
Lady E. Gavin, mother of the Countess cf Breadal- 
bane, and sister to Lord Lauderdale. : 
IRELAND, 
At a tate meeting of the proprietors of coaches 
from London to Holyhead it was determined 
that the Holyhead Mail should in future be for- 
warded ‘at the rate of ten miles and a quarter per 
hour; thus upwards of twelve hours will be gained 
in the delivery of letters in London and Dublin. 
57,809 men are employed in our fisheries, and our 
trade with foreign nations has been considerably 
improved for thése last two years, ¢hiefly in beef, 
pork, butter, linen, and printed calicoes. 
The Carrickbeg Committee say that among their 
population containing about 4,000 people, there are 
163 families destitute of employment, without food, 
or money to procure it. Dublin, too, we regret to 
say, has been in a very disturbed state, and pillage 
has been the consequence. Parties, attended witha 
number of women, to whom the plunder was given, 
have been frequent—but several cf theriotershaving 
been taken into custody peace; has been restored, 
Fever has also increased with the most frightful 
rapidity, which, in addition to the dreadful distress 
so long prevalent, renders the situation of this capi- 
tal tremendous. _ , ° 
Died.) At Dublin, Catherine, relict of the late 
Sir H. Nugent, bart , and niece of the late Earl 
of Liandaff—73, Dr. Warburton, Bishop of Cloyue. 
