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SOMERSETSHIRE. 
There are upwards of 5000 persons out of employ 
at Frome, and the poor-rates exceed £1000 per 
month. The population fs about 13,000, and if the 
present stagnation in trade should continue through 
the winter, what will become of the poor, if the 
government of the country does not interfere!!! 
Married.] At Churchill, Rey. W. G. Dymock, to 
Miss M. A. Perry. 
Died.] At Bath, 88, 
Bristol, Mr. Weldy. 
Mrs. A. Richardson—At 
DORSETSHIRE. 
Aug. 17, the new church at Hamworthy was con- 
secrated. The old church is supposed to have been 
destroyed during the time of the civil wars, and 
from that time to the present the inhabitants have 
had no church.—Aug. 23. The new rail-road in the 
island of Portland was opened. 
The annual buck hunt took place, Sept. 11, at 
Tollard Royal, on Cranbourne Chase, and was very 
numerously attended. The right of chase belongs 
solely to Lord Rivers, and extends over 500,000 acres 
of land, who has lately proposed to the land owners 
to disfranchise it, on their binding themselves to a 
payment of £1,800 per annum to him and his heirs ; 
but the gentlemen of the hunt express themselves 
as more desirous that the stock of deer (at present 
near 12,000), should be reduced to 5,000, than that 
his lordship should give up this splendid and ancient 
right. 
Married.) At Blandford, G. Wyatt, esq., to Miss 
S. Carpenter—At Nether-Waltop, C. Knight, esq., 
to Miss A. Hibberds. 
Died.] At Weymouth, 85, Mr. J. Hawkins—Mrs. 
Oakley, 92—Mrs. Garland, 81, and the Rev. Abel 
Edwards, 78, forty years pastor of the Unitarians, 
Dorchester—-At Salisbury, Miss Easton. 
DEVONSHIRE. 
The Exeter grand wrestling matches continued for 
three days, and gave so much satisfaction to the 
lovers of the sport, that arrangements are already 
made for similar amusements next summer, under 
the denomination of ‘‘ the Devon and Exeter Grand 
Match.” 
A meeting has been held at Axminster for the pur- 
pose of entering into a subscription for extending 
the harbour of that place, and for the formation of 
a rail-road to the town of Axminster. 
Died.] At Dawlish, Fanny, daughter of Lieut. 
Col. G. Rochford, M.P. for Westmeath—At Wem- 
bury, from pricking his finger, Mr. J. Hill—At 
Plymouth, Capt. H. Waring. 
CORNWALL. 
Aug. 24. A meeting was held at Bodmin, and a 
subscription entered into of nearly £2,000, for 
diverting the line of road between Falmouth and 
Launceston, so as to avoid the dangerous hills on the 
present route. The expense will be about £6,500.— 
A district society has been formed for the four 
Eastern Deaneries of Cornwall in aid of the society 
for the enlargement and building of churches and 
chapels. 
A considerable adyance has recently taken place in 
the standard for copper, which is a most cheering 
nd most opportune alteration for the mining popu- 
lation of this county. 
Married.) At Gwinear, G. Lush, esq., to Miss 
ena Vawdry, fifth daughter of the Rev. W. 
Vawdry. The bride was accompanied to the altar 
her mother, and ten brothers and sisters; one of 
her brothers gave her away, and her father performed 
the ceremony. ’ 
Penzance, Mrs. Davy, mother of Sir Humphrey 
Davy. 
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Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Died.) At Southpetherwin, Miss C. Ward—At 
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WALES.. a 
At the Carnarvon assizes only one criminal was 
tried; it was for burglary, and he was transported 
for life. For Radnorshire also only one was found 
for trial, who was sentenced to twelve months’ 
imprisonment.—At Anglesey not one.—Aug. 28, the 
eleventh anniversary of the Cardiff schools was held, 
when it appeared from the report that, since their 
formation, no less than 1056 children have been 
partakers of their benefits; there are at present 115 
boys and 70 girls: upon their examination it seemed 
that no exhibition of this kind could be more 
respectable. There was a very liberal subscription. 
—The state of the iron trade in Monmouthshire and 
South Wales is worse than it has been for many 
years—the prices are lower in proportion to the rate 
of wages than, perhaps, they ever have been.—The 
stupendous national works of Menai and Conway 
bridges have, during the last six months, attracted a 
vast influx of company to view them. 
Married.) As Ystradyfodog, J. Edwards, esq., to 
Miss M. Morgans—H. Price, esq., R.N. of Amlwch, 
Anglesea, to Miss A. Waite—Mr. W. Williams, of 
Tyn-y-llan, to Miss E. Evans, of Efail-goch, both 
in the parish of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesea. 
Died.] J. Stanislos Townsend, of Trevallyn, esq. 
—Miss Charlotte Herring, youngest daughter of the 
Dean of St. Asaph—At Gwernarin, 70, S. Williams, 
esq —At Lantarnam, Rev. E. Davies—At Hafod 
E. Morgan, esq.—Rev. T. Williams, vicar of Lilans- 
adwrn, Carmarthenshire. 
SCOTLAND. 
The crown has issued a commission of inquiry 
into the system of education in our universities, 
embracing all the colleges of Scotland. The Com- 
Missioners consist of noblemen and gentlemen of 
aficial characters; their first meeting was held Aug. 
31, in the college of Edinburgh. A similar commis- 
sion composed of independant members, would per- 
haps be of service in some other universities.—The 
grand ceremony took place Aug. 15, of driving the 
first pile of the extension piers at Leith.—The 
expense the police establishment for the present year 
is to be increased to the sum of £26,000.—A report 
highly deserving the attention of the public has been 
published by the committee of the general assembly, ‘ 
“‘for increasing the means of Education and Re- 
ligious Instruction in Scotland.”—Apples have this 
season been sold at Leith as cheap as potatoes, and 
water as dear as milk.—By a report published of the 
proceedings of the university of Aberdeen, it 
appears that a spirit of scrutiny and improvement 
seems to be exciting in our universities. 
Married.] At Slain’s Castle, J. Wemyss, esq., 
M.P., to Lady Emma Hay, sister to the Earl of 
Errol—At Dunans, Argyleshire, C. Gordon, esq., to 
Helen, eldest daughter of J. Fletcher, esq. 
Died.] At Edinburgh, Archibald, the third son, 
and Adrien, the fourth son, of Lieut Gen. Sir John 
Hope—At Edinburgh, 81, Mrs. Montgomery, and 
Mrs. E. Honyman, relict of the late G. Taylor, esq. 
of Thuro—At the Manse of Anstruther Easter, 82, 
A Johnson, esq.—At neon » Dr. John Barclay, 
a distinguished ornament of the medical school—At 
Inner Leven, 87, D. Anderson, esq., examiner of 
H. M’s customs—At Ayr, Lieut.-Col. R. Cameron. 
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IRELAND. 
A meeting of the inhabitants of Cork has been 
recently held for taking into consideration the 
present alarming state of the public distress, when 
several resolutions were passed expressive of their 
application for the establishment of the poor-rates in 
that unfortunate country. In the mean time it is - 
shocking to anticipate what is to become of the 
Irish peasantry, who are absolutely destitute of their 
usual resource (from the failure of the potatoes !), 
and unprotected by poor laws!!! a 
