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try, and thus he rose, from a station laborious 
and obscure, to the highest eminence in the 
scientific profession which he pursued. No 
jealousy nor self-interest ever prevented the 
exercise of a free and unbounded communi¬ 
cation, by giving to inventors the benefit of 
his experience,removing difficulties which had 
not occurred to their author, or suggesting 
alterations which adapted the inventions to 
their use—in fine, the love of science was 
superior in his mind to all mercenary feeling. 
Among a vast number of distinguished persons 
who followed Mr.Rennie to the grave,were,Sir 
Joseph Yorke, Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir J. 
Seppings, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir J. B. Martin, 
Sir Thomas Lance, Mr. Chautrv, Mr. T. W. 
Brande, and several other men of rank and 
high professional abilities. The funeral ar¬ 
rangements were conducted without any affec¬ 
tation of splendour, but extremely handsome 
and well devised, and in the long train of 
mourners, were many to whom his exertions 
had been valuable, and many by whom his 
talents had been admired. 
Mr. Rennie was in person, tall, well made, 
possessing an agreeable countenance and af¬ 
fable address : in his latter years, however, 
of a serious, though not reserved habit.* In 
his transactions he was particularly careful in 
avoiding all unfair practices, in biassing his 
employers in favour of any particular con¬ 
tractors, a-,line of conduct which enables him 
who perseveres in it, to maintain that dignity 
of conduct so requisite for those entrusted with 
the interests of others. 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. 
The Rev. R. Cruttwell, L.L.B. to the 
rectory of Spackshall, Suffolk. 
The Rev. Edward Parke, A.M. to the 
vicarage and parish church of Battisford, 
Suffolk. 
The Rev. L. R. Brown, A.B. to the rec¬ 
tory and parish church of Thorington, 
Suffolk. 
The Rev. J. Homfray, B.A. to be one of 
the ministers of St. George’s Chapel, Great 
Yarmouth. 
The Rev. H. Moises, of University Col¬ 
lege, Oxford, and rector of Whitehaven, 
domestic chaplain to Lord Stowell. 
The Rev. G. P. Lowther, M-A. to the 
rectory of Barton, Derbyshire. 
The Rev. J. Blackburn, M.A. vicar of 
Ganiford, Durham, to hold by dispensation 
the adjoining rectory of Romaldkirk, in 
Yorkshire. 
Mr. D. K. Sandford, B.A. of Christ 
Church, Oxford, elected Professor of 
Greek, in the University of Glasgow. 
The Rev. H. Whinfield, to the rectory of 
Battlesdown cum Potsgrove, Northamp¬ 
tonshire. 
The Rev. James Robson, to the vicar¬ 
age of Ainderbury Steeple, near Northal¬ 
lerton. 
The Rev. Thomas Cook, M.A. of Oriel 
College, Oxford, to be domestio chaplain 
to the Earl of Malmesbury. 
The Rev. Charles Maekie, clerk, A M. 
to the rectory and parish church of Quar- 
ley. 
The Rev. George Harker to the hand¬ 
some new church lately consecrated by the 
Bishop of Oxford, at Chatham. 
The Rev. James Boyle, M.A. to the vi¬ 
carage of Islington, Norfolk. 
The Rev. J. Surtees, rector of Banham, 
to the prebendial stall at Bristol. 
The Rev. Mr. Winter, late curate of Hil¬ 
ton, to be chaplain to the Kent county 
prisons. 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
With all the Marriages and Deaths. 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
PHT1HE London mails are now (since the 
i beginning of October') brought into 
Newcastle at half-past six, instead of nine 
in the morning, and the letters are deliver¬ 
ed soon after eight o'clock. 
The Wall’s End colliery blew up a few 
days since, when fifty men and boys were 
killed on the spot, and four others wouud- 
cd. Particulars of this afflicting accident 
in our next. 
The following will shew the facility of 
conveyance in the north of England. The 
distance from Shields to Newcastle is only 
eight miles, and for the reciprocal convey¬ 
ance of passengers and goods, there are 
36 coaches and gigs,6steam-boats, 9 boats 
called comfortables, and 16 wherries. On 
Sunday evening, Sept. *2, one of those steam 
boats, on its return to Newcastle, had 297 
passengers! 
John Coates, esq. has lately presented a 
very fine Egyptian mummy to the New¬ 
castle Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Married .] Richard Brewster, esq. to 
Miss Frances Dale.—Mr. John Hodgson, to 
Miss Ewbank.—Mr. John White, to Miss 
Frances Robinson.—Mr. R. Grainger, to 
Miss Arundel 5 both of Newcastle.—Mr. 
W. Rawlin, to Miss Adams.—Mr. W. 
Knight, of Mary-le-bone, to Miss M. A. 
Weatherbone.—Mr. C. Jefferson, to Miss 
Dobson, of Bishop Auckland.—At Dur¬ 
ham, Mr. T. Smith, to Miss A- Maxwell. 
—Mr. W. Dewar, to Miss Davis. 
Died.'] At Newcastle, 23, Mr. John 
Moreland.—72, Mrs. Mather.—78, Mrs. 
Routledge.—Andrew, son of the Rev. R. 
Fergus.—100 yrs. 5 mon. Mrs. Barbara 
Humble. 
At Gateshead, aged 65, Mr. T. Melvil, 
printer. He had been constantly employed 
50 years 
