1826.] 
28.—The new Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 
C. Farebrother, Esq. and H. Winchester, Esq., were 
sworn into office with the usual formalities. 
"  99:—Alderman Brown chosen Lord Mayor, for the 
ensuing, year;,and thanks unanimously voted to 
Alderman Crowder 2nd’ T: Kelly, Esq. the late She- 
riffs, for their conduct during their shrievalty. 
Oct. 4.—A meeting of silk-weayers took place at 
the Brunswick’ Chapel,| Mile-End-Road, when an 
address to his» Majesty was read, in which, among 
other topics, it was represented that in consequence 
of the repeal of the Spital-fields’ Acts, and the intro- 
duction of foreign wrought silks, they were reduced 
to the utmost misery. It appeared by the statement, 
that since the opening of the ports 129,000 pieces of 
foreign silks had been imported !!! 
— By the return made to the Corporation Coal 
and Corn Committee, it appears that last year 6,571 
ships were employed in importing 1,456,162 chaldrons 
of coal into the port of London. 
19. A Common Hall was summoned at Guildhall, 
for the purpose of taking into consideration the 
propriety of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of 
the Corn Laws, and for a general review of the ex- 
penditure of the country. The petitions passed 
unanimously to both houses.of Parliament. 
— Thanks of the Common Hall, held at Guild- 
hall, voted to the Right Hon. William Venables, 
‘Lord Mayor, for his conduct during his mayoralty. 
MARRIAGES. 
At St. George’s,, Hanover-square, Count Deme- 
trius de Palatiano (brother-in-law of Sir Frederick 
Adam, Governor of the Tonian Islands), to’ Miss 
Catherine Elizabeth Marrie; Rev. J. H. Barber to 
Lady Milligent Acheson, youngest daughter to the 
late Earl of Gosford; G. W. Tapps, Esq. M.P., son 
Sir G. Tapps, Bart., to Clara, eldest daughter of 
A. E. Fuller, Esq-, of Ashdown-house, Sussex ; 
Mr. E. Knight, son of the late comedian, to Miss 
M. Povey, of Drury Lane Theatre; R. Pigot, Esq., 
sou of Sir George Pigot, Bart., to Miss Mary Bam- 
ford, of Bamford, Lancaster; Rev. R. Ridsdale, 
Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, to Audrey Harriet, 
daughter of the Right Hon. Lord John Townshend ; 
W. H. Ainsworth, Esq., to Miss Fanny Ebers; 
Capt. Phillimore to: Miss West, of Portland-place; 
at Walthamstow, J. Farquhar Fraser, Esq., nephew 
of the late J. Farquhar, Esq., of Fonthill Abbey, to 
Miss Agness Bagott, Blithfield, Staffordshire; Harte 
Sitwell, Esq., to Harriet, daughter of Sir Joseph 
and Lady Harriot Hoare. 
DEATHS. 
In Gower-street, R. Shedden, Esq., 85, and the 
Dowager Lady Riggs Miller, widow of the late Sir 
Incidents, Marriages, Sc. 
571 
Johh Riggs Miller, Bart., and formerly Lady D:- 
venport—In Westmorland-place, Benjamin Sword, 
Esq., formerly of Glasgow, to which place he has 
bequeathed a variety of legacies, to the most impor- 
tant of its charitable institutions—B. B, Mathew, 
Esq., son of the late General Mathew, and nephew 
to the last Duke of Ancaster—Mrs. Barnard, relict 
of C. Barmard, Esq.;; 2nd, sister to Sir Thomas 
Clarges, Bart.—Mr. Connor, of Covent Garden 
Theatre—Mr. Kelly, formerly of Drury Lane Thea- 
tre, and lately manager. of the Opera-~House—J. 
Petyt, Esq., 69, Brunswick-square—At Brompton, 
G. Garrard, Esq., A.R-A.—Lieut.-General Bentham, 
Royal Artillery, 65—At Hampstead, Lady Mordaunt, 
widow of the late Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., Wal- 
ton, Warwickshire—Mr. G. Kent, for many years 
sporting reporter to the daily press—T. Peacock, 
Esq., Salisbury-square—W. OBrien Macmahon, 
Esq., latea Captain in the 73d regt.—James Shuter, 
Esq., formerly of Madeira, and late Naturalist to 
the East-India Company at Madras—Mrs. Haring, 
daughter of the late W. Hornby, Esq., Governor of 
Bombay—Emma, eldest daughter of the Hon. and 
Rev. William, and Lady Anna Beresford, grand- 
daughter to the late Archbishop of Tuam, and niece 
to the Earl of Tankerville and Lord Decles. 
MARRIAGES ABROAD. 
Sept. 20, at the Hotel of the British Ambassador 
at Paris, H. E. L. O'Connor, Esq-, of Innox Hill 
House, Somerset, to Isabella Anna, daughter of the 
late Hassard Stackpoole, Esq., R-N.—At Hanover, 
G. F. Turvile, Esq., to Julietta Henrietta, daughter 
of A. F. Von der Lanchen, of Geelenbeck, Meck- 
lenburgh-Schwerin. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Bogota, J. H. E. Fudger, Esq., American 
consul for the port of Santa Martha. He was mur- 
dered in his bed on the night of July 13, having 
been stabbed through the heart with his own sword, 
his throat cut from ear to ear, and his trunks rifled 
of their contents; the Government were exerting 
every nerve to discover the assassins—At Lausanne, 
the Ex-Queen of Sweden; she was a Princess of Ba- 
den. Herson, Prince Gustavus, and her daughters, 
the Princesses Amelia and Cecilia, with her sister 
the Queen Dowager of Bavaria, attended her in her 
last illness.—The Russian {General Count_Von Ben- 
ningsen, at his country seat at Bontelu. He was 
born in Hanover in 1745.—At Havre-de-Grace, Rear 
Admiral John Monkton, 72;3the' French comman- 
dant paid his remains military honours, and attended 
himself with the troops, composed of 1,000 men. 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM, 
The first report of the Infant School Society of 
Newcastle’ has’ been published. It goes on, as it 
should do, prosperously. “The school was opened on 
June 20, 1425, and now contains upwards of 150 
children of the poor, from two to six years of age, 
whose progress is very evident. t 
The members of the Secession Church of South 
Shields have entered into strong resolutions about 
paying ‘‘,church fees.” A gentleman of that place, 
anda Seceder, had achild born unto him in August 
13th last. On the 17th, at his request, it was baptized 
by one of his respectable pastors, on which day it 
died. When the child was taken to be buried, the 
curate of the church demanded the fees of baptism, 
in addition to those of sepulture. This was refused, 
as the child had been baptized by their own clergy- 
man; the answer however was, ‘‘ it was no matter: 
they were allowed to worship) God as they pleased, 
but the church must have its fees.” The fee was 
therefore paid, and the following’resolution, among 
others, passed on the occasion : ‘‘ That they recom- 
mend to the session of their church not to intermit 
in their proceedings ,till restitution of the money 
and complete’ satisfaction has been rendered.” 
The inhabitants of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, 
and Monkwearmouth, have passed resolutions signi- 
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