REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN THE MONTH.

BIRTHS ABROAD. Mrs. James Finnie, at Lisbon, of a son

Mrs. Joseph Phelps, at Madeira, of a daughter

MARRIAGES ABROAD, Hilton, Captain, 45th regt. foot, at Colombo, to Summerfield, Miss H. daughter of Major S. 83rd regt.

DEATHS ABROAD. James, Robert, esq. at Demarara

Smith, Jno. P.esq. King's Advocate, at Demarara Campbell, Major-Gen. Charles, Algoa Bay Thornhill, H.B.esq.of Montague-pl. 42—at Tours Vansandan, F. esq. of Morden, Surry, at Vera Bonham, Ensign $. 9th regt. foot, Grenada Cruz

Mathison, Lieut. C. 1st bat. 3rd N.I., Bombay.

METROPOLITAN OCCURRENCES.

His Majesty arrived at Greenwich the royal squadron until it arrived at from Scotland in excellent health and Greenwich. A few minutes afterwards spirits. By order of the home secre. the spectators were gratified with a full tary of state, Sir R. Birnie, chief ma view of the Royal Sovereign moving gistrate at Bow-street, attended with a majestically round the point of land large body of dismounted and other below Greenwicb, preceded by the patrole, Detachments of foot guards stately city barge, with her profusion and royal marines occupied stations of gaudy flags and streamers fying, and within the Hospital grounds. The ve surrounded and followed by hundreds teran inhabitants of the Hospital were of vessels of every description. The drawn up in their best apparel, within' royal yacbt was fast moored iwmedithe railings. The Lord Mayor, on board ately off the Hospital stairs, and the the city barge, proceeded down the King appeared upon the quarter deck, river below Blackwall, and attended in in the uniform of an admiral. A loud the capacity of conservator of the and almost unanimous burst of applause Thames, to conduct his Majesty back from the spectators was acknowledged to Greenwich. The river opposite the by the King in his usual affable manner. Hospital presented a pleasing spectacle. Soon after his Majesty descended the Boats in considerable numbers moored accommodation ladder to the Admiralty as closely as they were allowed to do barge, accompanied by Lord Melville, on each side the stairs, at which his Mr. Croker, &c. &c. and was immediMajesty was to land. They were chiefly ately rowed ashore. The royal car. filled with ladies. Immediately off the riage immediately drove off amid load stairs, the Admiralty barge, the yacht cheering. of Sir Richard Goodwyn Keats, K.B. Parliament is prorogued from Tuesgovernor of the Hospital, tbe Navy day the 8th day of October next, to Office barge, and the Thames Police Tuesday the 28th day of November yacht, were moored in readiness for next. the arrival of the royal-squadron, in His Majesty has been pleased to apformation having been conveyed by the point the Right Honourable George Comet steam packet to Sir Richard Canning one of his Majesty's principal Keats that his Majesty was expected to secretaries of state. arrive every minute. A short time The King has been pleased to apafter this communication had been point Major-General the Right Hon. made, the Royal Sovereigy, with her Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, to be his Mayards nicely squared, the national stað. jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minisdard flying at the main, and the com ter Plenipotentiary at the Court of modore's broad pennant at the fore top, Stockholm. hove in sight, towed by the James Watt The Earl of Clanwilliam has resigned steam packet. Almost at the same mo. the Private Secretaryship at the Foment discharges of artillery were heard reign Office. saluting his Majesty as he passed Wool The Duke of Wellington, accomwich. Just before the Royal Sovereign panied by Earl Clanwilliam, has left reached Blackwall, the Lord Mayor, in town tor Vienna. the city barge, towed by the Eagle, Sir W. Knighton has succeeded Sir drew gently off into the centre of the B. Bloomfield as Private Secretary and river, and taking the lead, preceded Keeper of the Privy Purse.

hberland Gate, the great northern side of Cockspur-street, nearly opposite
ice 10 Hyde Park, is about to Spring-gardens. It will have a grand
go a very great improvement-it' front with pillars:
at the sole expense of Mr. Hope, The College of Physicians is to be

classical taste and princely mu on the south side of Pall-mall East, at ice are so well known in the the back of the Union Club. Each of the qable world.

above buildings will have a front that Trustees of the British Museum will face the east, so as to form one ping to build two wings in the side of a street to run from Cockspurn behind, 315 feet long by 33 street to Pall-mall East. lide. The estimated expense is The Union Vuiversity Club, at the 000. which the Government will corner of Suffolk-street, is proceeding ce by instalments of £20,000. very rapidly.

during 10 years. The present Alterations are making at Coventis not to be pulled down, but garden Theatre, as well as at Droryd and beautified, so as to cor Jane, but not upon so large a scale as 1 as nearly as possible with the the latter. Among the alterations at rk.

the former Theatre is the removal of The foundation is laid out for the what is styled the “ basket,” the boxes new Union Club House, on the north behind the dress boxes in front.

BIRTHS.

SONS.
Mrs. Henry Metcalfe, Hill-st. Berkley-square Mrs. W. H. Tatham
Mrs. W. Ferrers, Wimbledon

Mrs. J. Kendrick, Upper Mary-le-bone-street Mrs. H. Larpent, Putney

Mrs. E. A. Wilde, College-hill Mrs. C. Wilson, Timstale Vicarage

Mrs. M. Ware, New Bridge-street Mrs. J. Drake, North Church

The lady of William Heygate, Esq. M.P. -Mrs. E. Repton, Drayton-green, Ealing

Mrs. W. T. Brande, Clarges-street Mrs. C. Lawrence, Cirencester

The lady of Capt. Barrett, 14th Light Dragoons Mrs. John Oswald, Deptford

Mrs. E. Wilson, Villa-house Mrs. B. Travers, New Broad-street

The lady of Sir L. V. Palk, Haldon-house Mrs. J. S. Manley, Thickbroom-cottage, Staf Mrs. James Inglis, Norwood, Surrey fordshire

The lady of the Hon. Capt. Rodney, R.N. Ryde, Mrs. T. S. Price, Duchess-street

Isle of Wtght Mrs. Moody, South Weald, Essex

Mrs. Drinkwater, Liverpool Mrs. (Captain) Dallas, Hampstead

Mrs. Elliott Graham, Tubney-lodge, Berks Mrs. G.W. Baker, Shooter's-hill, Kent

Mrs. A. Fraser, Thavies-inn Mrs. William Metcalfe, Carshalton

The lady of the Hon. J. Brodrick, Morley-lodge, Mrs. John Ireland, Leonard-square

Exmouth
Mrs. Greenway, Judd-street, Brunswick-square Mrs. N. Harden, Highgate
Mrs. B. Goode, Howland-street

Mrs. Alexander Monroe, Bushey, Herts,
Mis. A. Gillespie, Lanark

DAUGHTERS: Lady Caroline Ann M'Donald, Boyle Farm Mrs. W. Kew, New Palace-yard 'The Countess Manvers, Portman-square

The lady of Maj. Ord, K.H. Ř.A, Granstead-hall Mrs. Edgar Cocknell, Hackney-road

The lady of Sir C, H. Colville, Duffield, DerbyMrs. C. Leigb, Adlestrop-house, Gloucestershire shire Mrs. W. H. Majendie, Windlesham, Bagshot Mrs. William Heygate, jun. Mrs. H. Carew, Huish-cottage, Devonshire Mrs. J. Christie, Queen-street, May-fair Mrs. J. aunt, Coleshill, Herts

Mrs. Watson, Springfield-lodge. Camberwell Mrs. S. Donaldson, Hart-street, Bloomsbury The lady of the Rev. Dr. Butler. Harrow Mrs. William Jones, King's Bench

Mrs. H. Wild, Southampton-place, New-road Mrs. J. Cameron, Hampstead

Mrs. Jaques, Tottenham Mrs. Jardine, Stamford-hill

Mrs. C. L. Curtoys, Tottenham-mills. Mrs. B. Barwell, jun. Weymouth-street

MARRIAGES.

Adolphus, J. L. esq. Barrister-at-Law, to

Richardson, Miss Clara, Streatham
Acraman, D. W. esq. Bristol, to

Stewart, Miss R. RoyalYork-crescent, Clifton
Bosanquet, Wm. esq. jun. Upper Harley-st. to

Cumming, Miss Eliza, Enfield
Brown, Mr. Betts-street, Ratcliffe-highway, to

D'Arcy, Miss Wilkes, Tolleshunt, Essex
Bedford, J. Y. esq. Birmingham, to

Jenner, Miss C. Berkley, Gloucestershire
Bradley, Francis, esq. Gore-court, Kent, to

Harris, M.J. daughter of Rt. Hon. Lord Harris
Brown, Mr. C. J. Islington, to
Williamson, Miss Mary Ann

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Barron, George, esq, to

Barron, Miss Eliza, Strand
Bingham, J. esq. Derby, to

Rogers, Miss Lucy, Wassell-grove
Beale, J. E. esq. Plaistow, Essex, 10

Loxley, Miss Eliza, Stratford-green
Buck, Charles, esq. Preston, to

Birley, Miss, Low-mill, Whitehaven
Bough, William, esq. London, to

Pritehard, Miss A. Darlington-street
Burton, Henry, esq. Inner-Temple, to

Clarkson, Miss, Arundel-street, Strand
Brough, Mr. John, to

Oddy, Miss Jane, St. Botolph, Aldgate

2 M

Haldane, Alexander, esq: Inner Temple,

to Hardcastle, Miss E. Hatcham-house, Surrey Hampson, Sir G.F. bart. to

Brown, M. F. daughter of Admiral B.
Keysell, Mr. H. Southampton-pl. to

Meabry, Miss Sarah, Bloomsbury
Mathias, Wm, esq. Bernard-st. Russell-sq. to

Nicholas, Miss E. A. C. Blackheath
Milcaster, Colonel, Barham, Kent, to
: Harris, Miss E. Suddenham-ct. Kent
Newton, W. esq. Argyle-street, to

Faulder. Miss Ann, Gower-street
Preston, Rev. G. Norfolk, to
· Heythuyson, Miss E.John-st. Bedford-row
Plestow. C. B. esq. Norfolk, to

Musgrave, Miss G. Devonsh.-st. Portland-pl.
Patmore, G. P. esq. London, to

Robertson, Miss Eliza, Perth
Reynolds, J. H.esq. of Great Marlborough-st. to

Drew, Miss E. P. of Exeter
Ranche, J. P. esq. London, to

Spencer, Miss C. Ledbury
Saltwell, W. esq. Charleton Chambers, to

Caley, Miss F.B. Queen-square
Smith, Abel, esq.M.P. Woodhall Park, Herts, to

Melville, Lady Marianne Leslie
Thellusson, T. R. esq. Northamptonshire, to

Macnaghten, Miss Maria
Talfourd, T. N.esq, Inner Temple, to

Rutt, Miss R. Clapton, Middlesex
West, Sir Edward, Recorder of Bombay, to

Folkes, Miss L. G. Hillington Hall, Norfolk
Witherby, Mr. R. St. John's College, Cam. to

Hale, Miss E. Petworth, Sussex
West, 'T. T. esq. Pavement, Finsbury, to

Bryane, Miss S. P. Brixton Common, Surrey

DEATHS.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

payment of all expenses, amount to The Rev. Henry Tatham, rector of £100. 128. 6d. which sum has been laid St. Cuthbert's, Bedford, has been ap out amongst the different trades-people pointed chaplain to the English church in the town of Derby, by the direction at the Hague.

of the Ladies' patronesses, in the purBUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

chase of materials for clothing the disThe Rev. H. W. Wbinfield, M.A. has tressed Irish. been promoted to the rectory of Ty

DEVONSHIRE. ringham cum Filgrave, with the rec The Rey. John Cummins has been tory of Battlesden cum Patsgrave, Bed- promoted to the rectory of Rackenford. fordshire,

-Mr. Honeywell, a respectable farCAMBRIDGESHIRE,

mer, in the neighbourhood of KingsThe following gentlemen of the Unj. bridge, has now apples enough on seversity of Cambridge have been lately venty trees to make seventy hogsheads ordained :

of cider. By the Bishop of Exeter.

DURHAM. Deacons.-W.H. Arundel, B.A. Caius A seam of coal, six feet three inches College;

Charles Melhuish, B.A. and in thickness, was come at lately in the Thos. Ainger, B.A. St. John's College; new colliery at Hetton, at a depth of and T. B. Murray, B.A. Pembroke Col 109 fathoms, or 654 feet, wbich it is lege.

hoped will amply reward the owners of Priests.-Wm. Grylls, M.A. Trinity the colliery for the spirited manner with College; and E. D. Rhodes, M. A. Sid which they have entered into and proney College,

secuted the undertaking. The will By the Bishop of Chester.

of an officer who was killed in a late Deacons. - R. Wood, B.A. Corpus engagement between Lord Cochrane Christi College; J. Winn, B.A. St. John's and a Spanish feet, was lately proved College; P. Legh, B.A. Trinity Col. in the Consistory Court of Durham. lege; and T. Hinde, .B.A. Jesus Col This testamentary document, which the lege.

unfortunate officer carried in his breast Priests.-A.J. Lockwood, B.A.Jesus pocket, has been pierced in two differCollege; J. Bruce, St. Peter's College ; ent places by the fatal' sword which and T. B. Pooley, B.A. Christ's College. terminated his existence, and it is also

The Rev. S. Redhead has been ap- slightly marked with his blood. pointed to the vicarage of Claverley.

ESSEX.
CHESHIRE,

A portrait of Petrarch's Laura, by A new cast-iron bridge is erecting Simon Memmi, has been lately sold for over the canal between Chester and eighty-five guineas, at Wanstead House. Liverpool, at Canghall, similar to the The catalogue, speaking of it, says, Mollington bridge.

6 By the inscription on the back, it apCORNWALL.

pears, that this beautiful picture was In the course of working the tin painted by Memmi, for his friend Pemines of Cornwall, buckets without trarch, who mentions it in his fiftyhoops, cut out of the solid timber, and eighth ode, and again in the eightypicks formed with great labour out of ninth. After the death of Petrarch, it the horns of the fallow deer, have been was taken to Arquer, and, in 1374, the found.

Florentine Republic sent it to Bocaccio, CUMBERLAND.

who also notices it in his Epistles. A parcel of common land, forty-five After the death of Bocaccio, it passed acres, situate on Weddiker Rigg, has into the hands of Chilimi, from whom this year produced 721 stocks of oats it was bought.” The auctioneer, permore than last year.- Potatoes have haps, does not know that the learned been sold at Whitehaven market, at 1 d. dispute whether there ever was such a per stone. The apples in this county person as Laura-she is supposed to are very fine and large, some measur have existed only in the poet's brain. ing from twelve to fourteen inches in

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. circumference, and weighing 15 ounces. A pear-tree, of the jarganel species, Forty-nine pounds of fine mutton has growing in a garden near Gloucester, been sold at Whitehaven for eight shil which bloomed in the spring, and since lings! scarcely 2d. per lb.

produced a fine crop of fruit, now preDERBYSHIRE.

sents a singular spectacle of a second We are happy to learn that the pro blossom of a most beautiful appearance, fits of the Ladies' Repository, after -The wife of Mr. C. Rowe, of Exe

HAMPSHIRE.

ear.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

. NORFOLK.

ter, linen-draper, has been lately deli twenty years. Time has diminished vered of three fine boys, who, with the nothing of the splendour of this ancient mother, are likely to do well. -Mr. festival, which is enhanced in value by Betty, the ci-devant, young Roscius, the rarity of its recurrence, and of has again assumed the sock and buskin; which the inclinations of the native in. he opened at the Cheltenbam Theatre habitants, resident and non-resident, lately, in the character of the Earl of dispose them to say, esto perpetua. Essex, and was received with great

LINCOLNSHIRE. applause.

There is now an apple-tree belonging

to Mr. White, glazier, of Boston, in full In the garden of Mr. Harris, at Gosport, is some Indian corn now in full blossom, which has this year borne

fruit :- also one which has only been -Earl Grosvenor is said to have planted about two years, in the garden purchased the magnificent mansion of

of Mr. Weetes, of Skirbeck, which pro Fonthill,

duced apples this season, and has now The hop-picking has generally com

blossomed again. The Earl of Bris

tol has returned to his Lincolnshire menced in this county, and the produce

tenants 20 per cent. at his late audit, sof the plantations will rival the former

held at Sleaford. productions of the best year; the qua

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. lity of the hops is also excellent.

The Rev. W. Thursby, M.A, of Oriel KENT. There is now growing in a garden College, Oxford, has been elected to belonging to a gentleman of the dock

the vicarage of All Saints, Northampyard, Sheerness, a species of the gourd ton, void by the death of the Rev.

C. H. Tnffnell, -The Rev. J. Watgenus, the seed of which was brought from Van Dieman's land, in the Drome

son, D.D. curate of Acle, Norfolk, has

been instituted to the livings of Ringdary store ship. It is called by the natives of that island, toparra, and bears

stead-cum-Denford, void by the death a beautiful white flower. The gourd

of the Rev. Charles Proby, on the preis in the form of a bell, measuring ten

sentation of T. Burton, Esq. of Yar

mouth. inches in length, and nineteen in circumference. It is considered a great curiosity, and probably the only one

The Rev. S. H. Savory, A.M. has that ever arrived to perfection in this

been instituted to the vicarage of country.

Houghton Juxta Harpley, in this coun.

ty, on the presentation of the Marquis LANCASHIRE.

Cholmondeley. From the Norfolk There is an apple-tree growing in the garden of Mr. T. Bevington, at Omer

Agricultural Report we learn, that the Green, Thornton, near Crosby, of which

wall-fruit and grapes are almost every the stem is only eighteen inches high; good as in some seasons we find them

where abundant, the latter nearly as but the branches of which (supported

in hot-houses. Wheats are of a supeby a frame) extend over a circle of forty-five yards in circumference. This

rior quality. Barley perhaps not more tree has borne an extraordinary quan

than two-thirds of a crop, and the quatity of fruit.At Ulverston, apples

lity inferior to that of last year. Peas have been sold at the same price'as po

apd beans better than was at one time tatoes, viz. three-pence per hoop.

expected, but not an average crope Within the last six years, the money

Turnips falling off from the depredaexpended by the trustees of the Liver.

tions of grubs and wire-worms. pool Docks, in the article of labour NORTHUMBERLANDSHIRE.' only, amounts to the extraordinary sum

An annual exhibition for the promoof 374,0001. Preston Guild. The tion of the fine arts, is about to be festivities consist of a grand musical opened in Newcastle. festival, races, plays, &c. &c. This

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. singular festival, so perfectly unique, Two carrots were lately drawn from that there is no other of the kind in the garden of Mr. Hind, of Mansfield, the kingdom, is of the standing of five which weighed four pounds, one of cepturies. It appears from the record them measured in length sixteen inches, of the borough, that there have been and in circumference ten inches. At twenty guilds in five hundred years; Newark, apples have been sold in the that in the two first centuries they were street at three-pence per peck. An held at irregular periods, but that since apple has been lately gathered in the that time, beginning with the reign of garden of Mr. C. Greasley, of Sneinton, Henry VIII. they have been celebrated measuring twelve inches and a ball, regularly without intermission, every and weighing eleven ounces.