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appeared to those with whom he 

 conversed, to endure but little pain 

 from his extreme composure and 

 calmness. He died at six o'clock 

 yesterday morning." 



The following bulletin was shown 

 at St. James's palace : — 



Windsor Castle, Sept. 4;. 

 " His majesty has, for some 

 months past, appeared generally 

 tranquil and comfortable, although 

 his disorder remains undiminish* 

 ed." 



The venerable oak, generally 

 known by the name of Cybren-yr- 

 Ellyl, near Marmion in Merioneth, 

 fell lately under the weight of age. 

 It appears from Pennant's Tour, 

 that it must have been old even in , 

 the days of Owen Glendower, who 

 hid in this tree, the body of the 

 Lancastrian Howel Sale, near 400 

 years ago. 



The arch of the new bridge 

 erecting over the Dee, near Over- 

 ton, at the joint expense of the 

 counties of Denbigh and Flint, fell 

 down a short time ago, when about 

 two-thirds turned, and the trussed 

 centre which had been erected at 

 a cost of 2,000/. was literally crush- 

 ed to atoms. As the fall took place 

 in the night, fortunately no lives 

 were lost. 



7. The sheriflf's officer, under 

 an execution against the corpora- 

 tion of the borough of Sudbury, 

 entered the town-hall, and seized 

 and removed their property ; con- 

 sisting of the mayor's gown, with 

 other paraphernalia, scales, weights, 

 stall-stuff, between 200 and SOO 

 buckets, fire-crooks, &c. which it 

 is supposed, will soon be exposed 

 to public sale. The levy under this 

 execution, is for the amount of the 

 taxed costs in a trial, about three 

 years ago, between Mr. Shave and 



the corporation, when a verdict 

 with costs was given in favour of 

 the former, establishing his claim 

 to the freedom of the borough, 

 which they disputed. 



Cheltenham. — Ascent of a Bal- 

 loon. — About ten o'clock, the bal- 

 loon and car were removed from 

 the assembly-rooms, to the yard 

 belonging to the Iron Railway 

 company, at the extremity of the 

 town, on the Gloucester-road. 



About 12 o'clock, when the ne- 

 cessary preparations were making 

 for filling the balloon, the wind 

 being extremely boisterous, the 

 poles to which the balloon was to be 

 hoisted, and other temporary pre- 

 parations, were unforlunatelyblown 

 down, and the commencement of 

 the filling of the balloon was re- 

 tarded till half-past one o'clock. 



Though the assemblage of spec- 

 tators was so great, yet few com- 

 paratively paid for admission into 

 the yard to see the process of fill- 

 ing ; and there is, therefore, rea- 

 son to suspect, that Mr. Sadlei', 

 unless indemnified in some other 

 way, will rather be a loser, than a 

 gainer by the exhibition. 



The balloon was made of white 

 and crimson silk, in the shape of a 

 Windsor pear, but not upon such 

 a large scale as at first intended. 

 There was some impediment in the 

 process of filling ; but at last, at 

 twenty minutes past four o'clock, 

 the power of the balloon was ascer- 

 tained, by its being properly ad- 

 justed, when it was the general 

 opinion, that it had not power to 

 rise with Mr. Sadler. 



After the car had been pr^^perly 

 fastened, William Sadler, the son 

 of Mr. Sadler, only between 16 

 and 17 years of age, entered the 

 car, with all the composure and 



