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On Lord Mayor's Day, 9th inst. the usual ceremonies belonging to that city festival took place. The procession of Aldermen and other authorities, with all the City insignia, men in armour, &c. went by water to the Courts of Law at Westminster, where the regular forms were gone through, and the new Lord Mayor invited the Judges to dinner. The procession returned by water to Blackfriars about 4 o'clock, and then went to Guildhall, where a dinner was given 1,300 guests. All the cooks, &c. belonging to Mr. 'Bleaden's Tavern, had been employed for a fortnight previous in preparing it. There were 3,000 pounds of real turtle, filling more than 200 tureens! All the delicacies in and out of season, of course.

On Monday, the 11th inst., Mr. Hunt, who had arrived at Hounslow the day preceding, left that town, in a chaise, for London. As he neared the metropolis, a multitude collected and accompanied him. At Knightsbridge, the horses were taken from the vehicle, and he was drawn to the side of a barouche and six, near Hyde-park Corner. Before he entered the latter, an address of welcome was presented by the Committee formed to regulate the proceedings of the day, and Mr. Hunt addressed the assembled multitude. A procession was then formed by the Sawyers' Benefit Society with banners and music, some persons on horse-back, Mr. Hunt in his barouche, dressed in his plaid cloak and a white hat, and some other barouches which followed, containing Reformers, both male and female. It passed through Picca

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dilly and the principal streets, Royal Exchange some persons hissed. About five o'clock, three hundred respectable tradesmen, &c. sat down to dinner at the Eagle Tavern, City-road, Mr. Parkins in the chair, and Mr. Hunt on his right. In the course of the evening, a multitude who had assembled in the street, became very clamourous to see Mr. Hunt, and that gentleman addressed them from the balcony.

A Meeting has been held at the City of London Tavern, to consider a project for preventing the frequent taking up of the pavement in the metropolis for the purpose of repairing the sewers, &c. Mr. John Williams, of Cornhill, detailed to the Meeting a plan of "sub-ways,” or arched passages under ground, for which he had obtained a patent. In these passages, he proposed that the main pipes for every purpose (water, gas, &c.) should be placed on iron cradles or otherwise, and the service pipes conducted to the houses through door-ways at intervals of 20 feet.-A gentleman present observed, that, in Rome, ways of the kind proposed had been long in use. The Meeting ajourned, after resolving that another should be held to forward the plan.

The Order of the Garter, vacant by the death of Lord Castlereagh, has been conferred on the Marquis of Hertford.

From the southern side of Waterloo Bridge down to the Obelisk in St. George's Fields, there will shortly be one continued range of substantial buildings, erected on ground which, but six years ago, was a continued marsh or waste. In this line of build

ing stands the Coburg Theatre; between which site and the bridge is the New Jerusalem Chapel, built in the Gothic style; a little farther on, is Zion Chapel, on an extensive scale, intended for the use of a Baptist Congregation. The space between that and "The Feathers" is to be raised, and, as soon as the mass is properly consolidated, a foundation for a new Church will be laid, which is to be built on a similar scale to the elegant structure in the New-road, St. Pancras.

A thoroughfare is once more to be established across the centre of the canal in St. James's Park.-Since the destruction of the Pagoda Bridge, the utility of a passage in this direction has been senibly felt, especially by the inhabitants of Westminster. A carriage road also is, we understand, to diverge from the Park, between Marlborough House and St. James's Palace, by the front of Queen Charlotte's German Chapel into Pall-mall.

BIRTHS.

SONS.

The Lady of Lieut.-Col. Sir Grey Campbell, Cadogan-terrace

The Lady of A. H. Menewether, esq. Calne, Wilts

The Lady of the Hon. and Rev. P. A. Irby, Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire

The Lady of the Rev. Edw. Peacock, Fifehead, Shaftsbury

The Lady of T. Ross, esq. Topham

The Lady of John Sweethand, esq. Exmouth The Lady of James Wardrop, esq. Charles-st. St. James's

The Lady of J. Field, esq. Stockwell-common The Lady of the Rev. T. Eronow, Court Herbert, Glamorganshire

The Lady of R. Remmet, esq: Bedford-square The Lady of W. Davies, esq. Tittenhongergreen, Herts.

The Lady of R. S. Blucke, esq. Henrietta-st. "Brunswick-square

The Lady of W. R. James, esq. Wolverhampton House, Berks.

The Lady of W. J. Ricketts, esq. Berkeley-sq.
The Countess of Bectine, Cadogan-place
The Lady of R. Baxter, esq Winchester-row,
New-road

The Lady of Joseph Fry, esq. Plashet-house

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The Lady of W. Pulley, esq. King's-road, Bedford-square

The Lady of Sir J. Dunbar, Boath, Nainshire The Lady of R. Fothergill, esq. Caerlon, Monmouthshire

The Lady of the Rev. Bane Phipps, Chichester
The Lady of the Rev. W. Greenlaw, Blackheath
The Lady of G. Grenfell, esq. Bedford-place
The Lady of W. Prichard, jun. esq. Euston-sq.
The Lady of Captain Patterson, of the ship
"Canning"

The Lady of E. Bishop, esq. Finsbury-place
The Lady of J. G. Scott, esq. Bedford-row
The Lady of Shugar John Sutton, esq. Ports-
mouth

The Lady of Walter Selby, esq. Biddleston,
Northumberland

The Lady of T. Fellowes, esq. Rickmansworth The Lady of Warburton Davies, esq. Tittenhanger-green

The Lady of W. Jervis Ricketts, esq. Berkeleysquare

The Lady of J. Barwis, esq. barrister, Kilkenny

Lady Charlotte Sturt, Critchell-house

DAUGHTERS.

The Lady of the Rev. E. Williams, West Dean, Wilts.

The Lady of the Hon. M. Stapleton, Hastings The Lady of the Rev. R. Cranmer, Mitcham The Lady of J. King, esq. Highbury place, Islington

The Lady of W. Beckford, esq. Forest Hall, Essex

The Lady of T. Davies, esq. Hanover-square The Lady of John Randolph, esq. Bildeston,

Suffolk

The Lady of Lawrence Bicknell, esq. Gower-st. Bedford-square

The Lady of J. Burke, esq. York-street, Portman-square

The Lady of J. Drummond, junr. esq.
The Lady of D. Rainier, esq. Highbury-grove
The Lady of W. Nodes, esq. Howland-street,
Fitzroy-square

The Lady of Capt. Fankland, 20th Foot, Matlock
The Lady of R. Blagden, esq. Sackville-street
The Lady of the Rev. W. Foster, Collon, Louth
The Lady of J. Tasker, esq. Fitwalters, Essex
The Lady of W. H. Witherby, esq. Doughty-st.
The Lady of J. Sidney, esq. Richinond
The Lady of Sir F. G. Fowke, esq. East Acton
The Lady of the late Lieut.-Col. Brownrigg

MARRIAGES

Adeane, Mr. H. J. Barbraham, Cambridgesh. to
King, Miss Katherine, Grosvenor-place
Burn, Mr. R. St. Paul's Church-yard, to
Britton, Miss Jane, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Braithwaite, Mr. F. New-road, Fitzroy-sq. to
Shoubridge, Miss, Turnham-green
Bartlett, Mr. T. Queen-street, to
Langton, Miss, Shacklewell

Bray, Rev. E. Alkyns, B.D. F.A.S. Tavistock, to
Stothard, Mrs. New Kent-road

Cherry, Rev. B.A. Clare-hall, Cambridge, to Cameron, Miss Anne Alicia

Chaumetta, H. de la, esq. Newington-green, to Maubert, Miss, Norwood

Cartwright, R. esq. Bloomsbury square, to

Claughton, Miss A. Myddetton-h. Lancashire
Dyer, Mr. Charles, Winterbourne, to
Lavicount, Miss, Fremhay

Dury, Rev. Theodore, Knighley, to
Grenwood, Miss Anne, Knowle

Fearnall, Wm. esq. Greenwich, to
Martyr, Miss Clarissa
Farrar, Henry, esq. Scaleby, to

Fawcett,Miss Frances, Scaleby Cast. Carlisle Fraser, Wm. esq. Great Grimsby, to

Hardwicke, Miss Jane, Beverley, Yorkshire
Garnett, Rev. R. Blackburn, to
Heathcote, Miss, Southwell
Gray, Rev. James, A.M. Oxford, to
Poweli, Miss Catherine, Brislington
Gore, Hon. Edw. Hanover-square, to
Douglas, Miss Mary Ann

Hone, John, esq. Great Marlow, to
Gage, Miss, Kentish-town

Holmes, R. B. esq. 14th Regiment, to
Tyrie, Miss, Jamaica

Hixman, J. esq. Gt. Russell-st. Bloomsbury, to
Bladen Miss Kate

Kenrick, Rev. Geo. Maidstone, to

Bowring, Miss Margaret

Laistre, Mr. G. H. De. Adelphi, to
Piercy, Miss, Britwell, Bucks.

Locke, Mr. Wm. Oliver, Plumstead, to
Dusgate, Miss Anne Maria, Tring, Norfolk
Maltby, Jap. esq, Mansfield, to

Parsons, Miss Mary, Carrington, Derbyshire Myers, Capt. J. 7th Reg. Nat. Inf. Mad. Est. to Roberts, Mrs. Louisa

Newall, Capt. David Rae, to
Falconer, Miss, Bombay

Newman, Mr. R. F. Sion College Gardens, to
Rutland. Miss, Writtle, Essex

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Gouldsmith, Miss Jane, Hackney

Roope, Mr. J. Norwich, to

Clayton, Miss Jane

Skinner, Lieut. C. G. M'Gregor, 24th Lt.Dra. to Grant, Miss Christiana

Sheen, Rev. Sam. Oxford, to

Miles, Miss Louisa, Southampton-row
Shephard, John, jun. Doctor's Commons, to
Highmore, Miss Eliza, Dulwich

Sherwood, W. esq. Lower Connaught-place, to
Froggott, Miss Julia Agnes, Worksop
Voysev, Mr. Annesley, Conway-street, to

Green, Miss, Mary-le-bone-street, St. James's Whiltow, Mr. Rich. Meddocroft, Manchester, to Gardner, Miss Sarah, Pendleton

Williams, J. esq. of the E.-India Comp. Serv. to
Roxburgh, Miss Sophia

Wilson, Mr. Effingham, Royal Exchange, to
James, Miss Maria, Brownings, Essex
Whish, Rey, Richard Peter, M.A. Wells, to
Streatfeild, Miss, Chiddingstone

Yonge, Lieut. W. Crawley, 52nd Foot, to
Bargus, Miss Frances Mary, Barkway, Herts.
Young, Henry, Denmark Hill, to

Leaf, Miss Ellen, East Dulwich, Surrey

DEATHS.

Allen, Miss Ann, second daughter of J. Allen, esq., Buckingham, 25.

Bowen, Mrs. Wincanton-Bradley, Mrs.Wakefield, 94-Beswick, Mrs. Gristhorp-Breach, W. esq. Sloane-street, 66-Beauvoir, Miss Eliza, Englefield House-Bury, J. esq. Hucks, Worcestershire, 80-Bruce, Rev. Sir Henry Harvey Aston, Downhall, 60-Berry Veingsmill, esq. Madley-house, Barnett-Batson, Mrs. Churchrow, Limehouse, 79-Ballantyne, G. esq. Walthamstow-Lady Beaumarice, Wimbleton-hose. Surrey, 69.

Corne, Rev. W. Tirall and Swineston, Staffordshire,88-Capel, Miss Sarah, Russell-sq. 18 -Cooper, Mr. S. Bell and Crown, Holborn, 52.

Desse, J. esq. London-street, Fitzroy-squareDaniel, Mrs. J. E. Floore, Northampton, 28— Desanges, Miss Georgiana, Tottenham, 20,

Ellan, Thos. esq. Woodford-bridge-Edwards, Chas. Aug. esq. Garratt-lane, Wandsworth.

Franel, Mrs. at Bath, 87-Frewin, Rich. esq. Fludyer-street, Westminster-Fothergill, Mr. T. Austinfriars,71-Franks, Mrs. Emily Saunders, at Beechwood (the residence of her father Sir J. S. Sebright)Furye, Mrs. Upper Grosvenor.. street, 86.

Goldsmid Asher, esq. Finsbury-square, 71Greenwood, Mrs. Brookwood-park, Hants.Green, Mrs. Vicarage-house, Badley, Northampton, 28-Gant, Mrs. Acton-place, Kingsland-rd. 79 Grantley, Rt. Hon. W. Lord, Sloane-st. 82 -Ganthony, Mrs. Elizab. Cheapside,84-Grant, J. esq. Theoby Priory, Essex.

Hamlin, D. esq. Stockwell, 74-Houldsworth, H. esq. Farmefield, 90-Hawker, Mrs. Catisfield, Herts. Hudson, Mr. Thos. Sol. Winkworth-pl. City-road, 56-Hagan, Mr. Derby-street, 80Hayes, Miss Catherine, Pall-mall, 17.

Irvine, Andrew, esq. Sketton, Cleveland, 63. Jackson, Mrs, Sarah, Leadenhall-st.-Jones, Mr. J. H. Bayswater, 21.

Klyne, Mark, jun. Jermyn-street, St. James's -Karnslake, Rev. J. Burgess, Filleigh, Devon, 73-Knight, Mrs. Leicester-sq. 59 Knatchbull, Miss Henrietta, daughter of Dowager Lady Knatchbull, 10.

Lawes, J. Bennet, esq. Rothamstead-house, Herts-Lane, T. esq. Bedford-r. 64-Laing, D. esq. Balham-hill, Streatham,75-Lateward,Miss Julia Eliz. Perivale, Middlesex.

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M'Andrew, J. esq. Elgen, N. B. 64-Molses, Rev. Hugh, A.M. Whitchurch, Oxon-Menks, Mr. R. Owen's-place, Goswell-st.-rd. Magnay, Mr. H. son of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, 7 -Mamrix, Sir Henry, Eastwood, Pembrokesh, 83-Macintyre, Mr. W. Konachan, Lochaber, 101 -Mountford, Mrs. Rich. Tottenham-green Meyer, G, H. esq. Amsterdam, 55-Marcet, Dr. Alex. Great Coram-street, 52-Manners, Mrs. Caroline, Lambeth, 72-Marks, Mr. R. Owen'splace, Goswell-street-road, a piva i

Newton, Mr. Wm. King-street. St. James'ssquare, 31.

Onley, Rev. C. Stisted-hall, Essex, 89-Ogilvie, Mrs. Englefield-green, Surrey, 69.

Porter, Rev. H. Springfield, Essex-Powell, Sir J. Kynaston, bart. Hardwick, Salop-Puget, Admir. Peter, Grosvenor-pl. Bath, 60-Price, R. esq. Isleworth-Proby, Mr. Chas. R.N. Woolwich, 20-Puget, H. esq. Claphamn, 67-Proctor, Maj. Gen. Bath, 59-Page, G. esq. Chartton, Somersetshire (of the Lancers).

Rhodes, Mr. Sam. of Islington, at Tonbridge Wells, 57-Robinson, Lieut. Rob. R.N. Newroad.

Spencer, B. M.D. Shaftsbury, 67-Sproule, Capt. R.N. Clifton, 58 Smyth, J. H. esq. M.P. for the University of Cambridge Savage, P. H. esq. Kennington-pl. Vauxhall, (late Captain of the 52nd Regiment and of His Majesty's 1st Regt. of Life Guards, 55-Sowerby, J. esq. F.L.S. M.G.S. &c. (an Artist of considerable talent), 66-Smedley, Mr. J. East-hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, 56-Stringer, T. esq. Walworth, 85-Staniton, Matthew, esq. Isleworth, 90.

Trollope, T. esq. Luffenham, near StamfordTrickey, S. J. S. esq. Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, 54.

Vulliamy, Mr. Lewis, Edmonton, 73.

Withy, Mrs. Mary, Bristol, 94-Williams, Rev. R. Great Houghton, NorthamptonshireWoodeson, R. esq. Magdalen College, OxfordWedderburn, J. esq. His Majesty's Solicit. Gen. for Scotland, St. Mary's Isle-Wright, Mr. H. Tothill-fields, Westminster, 76-Wood, W. esq. Tetbury, banker, 65-Wade, W. esq. Mile-endroad, 63.

Young, Rev. J. Lindsay, M.A. Brazen-nose College, Oxford, Derby.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES.

BERKS.

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One thousand acres of land were lately sold, in the parish of Easthamstead, for 51, per acre, by the Commissioners appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in 1821, for inclosing the waste lands within the said manor and parish, which lands, according to the preamble of the Act, are to be greatly improved by inclosure. It must have been a popular measure, for great and small are said to have signed the Petition for the Bill, from the humble inmate of the poor-house to the Lord of the Manor,

CORNWALL.

The Justices, at the Quarter Sessions at Bodmin, have ordered that a treadwheel be immediately erected in the Bridewell-yard, for the employment of the prisoners liable to be kept at hard labour.

DEVON.

Orders have been received in the Plymouth Dock-yard for the men to work the long hours in winter, viz. from six till a quarter after five, from the 25th of October to the 9th of November, and afterwards from half-past seven to a quarter before five. It is also directed that 20 per cent. be deducted from the present prices of job and task work, Sixty men, of whom fifty-four were labourers, were discharged from the Dock-yard on Friday Jast.

R. Ward, Esq. M.P. from the Ordnance Office, has inspected the Artillery Barracks on the Topsham Road, near Exeter, and we understand, the whole will be shortly disposed of.

The swell in the rivers, occasioned by the late rains, has brough down a vast number of eels, some thousand pounds weight of which have been sold in Exeter at from 2d. to 4d. per lb. Salmon, from the same cause, has been plentiful, at 6d. to Is. per lb.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

At the Rookery, at Wanswell-farm, near Berkeley, there are, at this time, several nests of young rooks, and some other nests on which the old birds are now sitting.

HANTS.

A requisition has been signed by the Yeomanry of Hampshire, for the High Sheriff to call a County Meeting, to petition both Houses of Parliament to take into consideration the alarming state of their property.

KENT.

The dangerous situation of the once much-admired ruins of Ethelbert's Tower, at Canterbury, awfully projecting, rendering it expedient to level that beautiful remain of antiquity, the battering ram was brought to bear on one side of its massy angles, but its compact masonry for some time resisted the united efforts of the workmen. The surrounding spectators uttered shouts of exclamation, as though they had achieved a victory; while the attentive antiquarian could scarce refrain a tear at the premature fate of an object of his earliest veneration and constant regard. Not any thing now remains of this once beautiful specimen of gothic architecture but a shapeless mass of ruin. Several relics have been selected from that mass, which will no doubt be preserved with pious care.

LANCASHIRE.

A curious piece of antiquity was lately found, in digging for turf upon Leyland Moss, Lancashire. It consists of a kind of medal of the exact size of half-a-crown, with a handle about two inches in length, of the same metal as the medal, which is brass. On one side is an effigy of the Pope, and the same head reversed shows the profile of a figure, which appears to be intended for a bust of the devil; the inscription on this side runs as follows: ECCLESIA. PERVERSA. TENET. FACILEM. DIABOLI.

On the other is a plain profile with the following motto:-E. GODFREY, MORIENDO. RESTITVIT. REM. The piece was found several yards below the surface, and about two hundred paces from where a number of Roman coins were discovered some time ago.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

It affords us unfeigned pleasure to contrast the present state of the hosiery trade in this town, with what it was eighteen months or two years ago. About the middle of 1820, frameworkknitters by hundreds might daily be noticed traversing the streets in vain in search of employment. Now, what with an increased demand for goods, and a disinclination on the part of the workmen to labour to the extent which they did when compelled to do so by low prices, and the high price of provisions, manufacturers can with great difficulty execute their orders in due

time.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

A respectable farmer, of North Petherton, sold, at the late Fair, twenty prime Somerset ewes for fifteen pounds. The same farmer sold a fat pig, two years ago, for ten shillings more than the twenty ewes now fetched!

A quarrel took place lately at Frome between two men; when about to setto, one of them observed that his opponent had but one eye, and, scorning to take the least advantage, immediately and gallantly tied his handkerchief over one of his own eyes.

A tradesman left Bath lately to collect some accounts, amounting to upwards of a hundred and thirty pounds. He called at twenty-three places within a circle of twenty miles, and received the enormous sum of three shillings! -his journey cost him 10s. 4d. From people who had been heretofore most punctual, not a shilling was to be had. ́

SUSSEX.

The Ex-empress of Hayti, with her family, are now resident at Hastings, and much respected by the distinguish ed visitants to that place.

WILTS.

Within the last five years, we understand, that not less than 500 houses, forming streets, &c. have been built in the town of Trowbridge, and are now inhabited; and that a great number more are in a state of forwardness. This town now contains more inhabitants than any other in the county; its trade still continues extremely brisk, and many of the manufacturers are obliged to keep workmen employed night and day, in order to execute their orders in time.

YORKSHIRE.

On Wednesday the 30th October, Andrew Allan Hardy, esq. of Sheffield, was elected coroner for the west riding of the county of York, in the room of John Foster, esq. deceased.

A numerous and respectable meeting of the York Whig Club took place on Monday 25th inst. York. Both the Members attended, and the speeches evinced both zeal and sincerity in behalf of reform. A requisition is signing through out Yorkshire for a county meeting, to petition for reform: and the committee appointed for the purpose of taking measures on the subject, will, it is said, open a correspondence with the leading

landholders throughout England, for the purpose of arranging all the other counties to assemble for the same purpose.

William Brown, esq. of Liverpool, having visited his estate at Ormesby, in Cleveland, ordered his steward to call a meeting of his tenants, when their farms were again re-let to them at a reduction of thirty per cent. The worthy and generous landlord then ordered a dinner to be provided for them at the Red Lion, on the Friday following, at his own expense-When will a Noble Lord in this neighbourhood imitate this?

WALES.

A report has got into circulation, that government contemplates discontinuing the Milford and Waterford Packet Establishment altogether. The disadvantages, in a political and commercial point of view, that may result to South Wales, the adjoining counties of England, and the whole of the south-west of Ireland, if that measure be adopted, are incalculable. According to the present line of conveyance from Swansea to Waterford, the time occupied is about twenty-one hours, and the distance about 155 miles, the postage be ing 10d.;. while the proposed rout, it is estimated, will occupy ninety-six hours, making the distance about 478 miles, and the postage about 28.

SCOTLAND.

The foreign trade appears to be rather in an improving state than otherwise, as we learn that the sum remitted to London from customs alone, was, last quarter, 43,0681. 6s. 8d. more than in the corresponding quarter of last year, and the excess during the whole year beyond the preceding one,23,1811.5s.7d.

The Royal Bank of Scotland have come to the resolution of charging in.* terest on cash account credits, at the rate of four per cent. only, at their office here, and at their branch in Glas-' gow.

The election of a Lord Rector for the University of Glasgow has produced an unusual contest this year. Sir Walter Scott and Sir James Mackintosh were the competitors. Sir James was elected by a great majority, having 750 votes out of 1000.

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