MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married.]-At the British Embassy, Paris, and afterwards according to the Rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Edward Charles Blount, Esq., second son of Edward Blount, Esq., and nephew to the late Sir Walter Blount, Bart., of Soddington, in the county of Worcester, to Gertrude Frances, youngest daughter of the late William Jerningham, and niece of the Right Hon. Lord Stafford. At Heddington, Wilts, by the Rev. James T. Du Boulay, the Rev. John Blennerhassett, rector of Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Francis Houssemane Du Bonlay, Esq., of Walthamstowe, Essex. By the Rev. John Stirling, B.A., Thomas Henry Dakins, Esq., of the island of St. Vincent, to Harriet, only daughter of the late John Roche Dasent, Esq., late Attorney-General of the same Island. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Thomas, youngest son of the late David Denne, Esq, of Lydd, in the county of Kent, to Jane, youngest daughter of John Falconer, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Leghorn. At St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. T. Fuller, William Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Wilton-place, to Miss Charlotte Wentworth, of Wilton-crescent. At St. Marylebone New Church, after having been first married according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis J. Van Zeller, Esq., her Most Faithful Majesty's Con sul General in the United Kingdom, to Dorothea, second daughter of the late Henry Van Zeller, Esq., of Oporto. At Crowcombe, Thomas Cridland Luxton, Esq., of Weacomb House, Somerset, to Mary Aune, second daughter of George Henry Carew, Esq.,of Crowcombe Court, in the same county. Died.]-In her 63d year, Lady Miles, formerly of Conisboro', Yorkshire. At Tittenhanger-house, near St. Alban's, Herts, the Right Hon. Phillip Earl of Hardwicke, K.G., aged 77. At Huntingdon, the Rev. Alfred Veasey, B.D., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, aged 34. Jaines Heath, Esq., A.R.A., in the 78th year of his age. At Richmond, Surrey, Henry Edmond Innes Calder, eldest son of Sir Henry R. Calder, Bart. At Berhampore, Bengal, aged 41, Major George Macartney Greville, of his Majesty's 38th Regiment. At Kingsbury Lodge, St. Alban's, Herts, aged 77, the Rev. Robert Moore, D.D., formerly vicar of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire. At Cheshunt-park, the residence of T. A. Russell, Esq,, Lieut.-Gen. G. A. Armstrong, aged 63, deeply and deservedly lamented by all who knew him. At Fulham, most affectionately regretted by her family, the Lady Sophia Kent. PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. LONDON. The presentments made by the leet juries of the three manors in the borough of Southwark exhibited a much greater number than usual of persons who had been amerced in penalties for using illegal weights, scales, and measures. The penalties, varying from 2s. 6d. to 107., amount in the whole to between 6001. and 700%. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Allotment System.-The "Bucks Gazette" contains the following satisfactory article on this subject:-The parish authorities of Buckingham have taken the glebe farm of 103 acres, to let out in small allotments of from one to three acres, to such labourers as may apply for them, the parish agreeing to assist such labourers until their first crop is housed. Several parishes in the neighbourhood have adopted a similar plan, which we earnestly hope will restore the honest, industrious labourer, to that independence now nearly lost among that class of society. The Duke of Buckingham has offered land in all the parishes in which he has property, for the use of the labouring poor. In the parish of Buckingham a two-acre renter (and not an agricultural labourer) had a produce of five quarters from less than one acre of ground, and on the other acre has and will realise more than 20%. in potatoes; in fact, the two-acre system has been for several years in operation on his Grace's estate near Buckingham; and we can confidently state that (although there are some bad managers) one third more food for man and beast has been produced from this land than was produced when let altogether. Can any thing be said more in favour of this admirable system? CORNWALL. There has been a valuable course of copper ore recently discovered on Trevarren Beach, near Morgan Porth, by Mr. Trethewy, an engineer, who has secured the set, and is about to com mence forming a company. The copper is said to be of an excellent quality. SCOTLAND. The following article on the manufactures of Scotland is from Mr. Horner's Report to Lord Duncannon, dated London, July 20, 1834 : "The total number of cotton, woollen, flax, and silk factories in Scotland, in which the machinery is moved by steam-engines or water-wheels, amount to 388. It is possible that there may be some country woollen mills which have been omitted by the surveyors, but if so, they can only be on a very small scale. The chief seats of the cotton and flax mills are in those parts of the country where coal abounds, or is to be had at a cheap rate from the vicinity of the sea; and some great mills have been established in situations distant from coal, where there is a great command and fall of water; but it is remarkable, that some situations in Scotland, highly favourable for manufactures, are without them, as, for instance, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where coal is very cheap, where there is a large population to supply young hands, and where there is a sea-port to save the expense of land-carriage, both for the raw material and the manufactured article. With the exception of some large establishments at Aberdeen, and one at Stanley, near Perth, the cotton manufacture is almost entirely confined to Glasgow, and the country immediately adjoining, to a distance of about 25 miles radius, and all these country mills, even including the great works at Stanley, are connected with Glasgow houses, or the Glasgow trade. "The spinning of flax by machinery is the next manufacture carried on in mills to a large extent. These factories are even more numerous than the cotton mills, but are generally on a smaller scale. The chief seats of that manufacture are in the counties of Forfar, Fife, and Aberdeen; they are chiefly engaged in spinning the coarser qualities of yarns, but the finer qualities are on the increase. With few exceptions, the woollen mills of Scotland are on a small scale. Of the total number, 89, 71 do not employ 50 people each; and of these 71, there are 26 which do not give employment to 20 people each. There are only six silk mills in all Scotland, and only three of these are of any importance. The total number of persons employed in the cotton, woollen, flax, and silk mills of Scotland, is 46,825; of whom 13,721 (3799 males and 9922 females) are between the ages of thirteen and eighteen; and 6228 (2552 males and 3676 females) are under thirteen years of age. There are a few under eleven; their number, as in the returns, amounts to above 1100; but that is not to be taken as the number now in the mills, for I have found that since these returns were made, some mill-owners have discharged all under eleven, and taken on older children in their stead. At the same time, I am inclined to think, that a deduction of 100 would cover all who have been so discharged; for it was usually in cases where two, three, or four only were under eleven, and it was not thought worth while altering the arrangements of the mill for so small a number. The 'enumeration of steam-engines and waterwheels is not to be understood as showing the actual number of engines and wheels, because the returns for those mills where more than one engine or water-wheel is employed, only state the total amount of the power. It will be seen, however, that the total amount of steam-power is 5330 horses, and that the water-wheels are estimated as equal to a power of 4822 horses-making together a mechanical moving power equi valent to 10.152 horses." Of the 5330 horses of steam-power given in the above report, the town of Dundee alone produces 1042, being about one-fifth of the whole steam-power of Scotland. The election of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, caused by the elevation of Mr. Cockburn to the Bench, has taken place. The candidates-or rather those nominated by their re spective partisans-were Lord Stanley (the late Secretary) and the Earl of Durham, and a very active canvass was carried on by the adherents of both parties. The former was supported by the church party, and the latter by the radicals. At the conclusion, the election of Lord Stanley was carried by the great majority of 135; the votes being, Stanley, 298; Durham, 163. ACCIDENTS, recent, 232 Agricultural Report, 117, 254, 391, 528 Allotment System, the, 393 American Episcopal States, 527 Appleyard, Rev. Mr., his Four Lectures on the Liturgy, noticed, 373 Useful. See Useful Arts Assessed Tax Composition, 387 Balloon, the big one, 92 Bathurst, Right Hon. Henry, his death, 89, Bayly, T. H., Esq., his "Seeing's not Be- Beggars, Irish, 337 Biographical Particulars of celebrated Per- sons lately deceased:-Earl Bathurst, 131; Bristol, the See of, 357; death of the Bishop British Association for the advancement of Dec.-VOL. XLII. NO. CLXVIII. Broads, a visit to the, 19 Bubbles from Boulogne, by an Old Lady, 214 Bubbles from the Brunnens, noticed, 109; Bulwer E. L., Esq., his Last Days of Pom- Buonaparte, his Bards, and Alfieri's Pro- Cape of Good Hope, accounts from, 129 Carew, Admiral Sir B. H., biographical ac- Cart Horses, economical mode of preparing Castor, affairs of the, 229 Cataract, work on, noticed, 518 Cephalonia, earthquake in, 253 China, sketch of the History of, reviewed, 233 Clergy, Spanish, revenues of, 389 Coleridge, biographical sketch of, 55 Conflagration, the late one, 362 Covent Garden, performances at, 584 Crimes of Prize Fighters, 326 Critical Notices of New Publications, 97, Davis, Mr, the singer, 401 20 D'Israeli, Mr., Jun., the Infernal Marriage Diving Bell, recovery of treasure by the, 384 Donna Francisca, death and funeral of, 224; Doyle, Sir John, some account of, 132 Duelling, law of, in Hanover, 388 East Indies, accounts from, 129, 400 Electors in France, 115 Ellis, Rev. W., his Journal of Three Voyages 142 Field Sports, season of, 417 Fine Arts, 110, 343, 382, 522 Fire Damp and Choke Damp, 385 Fire, report of the Privy Council relative to the late one, 535. Fire, subterranean, 135 Fisher, George, his Companion to the His- Flower, Sir C. biographical account of, 411 Game, preservation of, 418 Great Britain, state of affairs in, 125, 261, Gutzlaff's History of China, reviewed 233 Haymarket Theatre, performances at, 111, 343 Heart's Tribute, the, 443 Heath's Picturesque Annual, noticed, 379 Immorality, bill to promote, 93 Irish Beggars, 337 Ladies Botany, reviewed, 238 Leach, Sir John, his death, 230; some ae- Leaves, the fallen, 351 Leaves from the Memorandum Book of Lebanon Springs, romantic story connected Letter, a Second Miss-directed One, 64 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 135 London, Bishop of, his charge to the Clergy Long Life, 472 Lyceum, performances at, 111, 244 M'Gregor, John James, his death, 269 Manna of Mount Sinai, 253 Marriage, the infernal, 30, 137 Marriages, 133, 270, 413, 543 Married Life, Comedy of, noticed, 111 Martineau, Miss, her departure for Ame- Mary-le-bone Institution, Lectures at, 245 Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Mexico, accounts from, 130 Miller of Corbeil, the, 39 Miriam Coffin, reviewed, 514 Monster in London, 95 Monthly Commentary, 86, 224, 357, 503 535 My Hobby,-Rather, 203, 281 My Opera Box, 431 Negro Emancipation, 90 News, bits of, 367 Newspaper Postage Bill, 251 Nineteenth Century, Revolutions of the, 169 O'Connell, Mr., his Letters to the Irish Octavia Elphinstone, noticed, 520 Pampa Indians, account of the, 78 Paris, mortality in, 252.-Population of, 253 1 521 Parliament, destruction of the Houses of, Parliamentary Papers, 249 Patents, new, list of, 122, 258, 532 Pedro, Dom, account of, 401 Plea for Ireland, reviewed, 236 Poetry-Sonnet, 481; Why do Maids look Poor-Law Bill, the new, 261 Poor Scholar's Lament, 189 Post-Office Packets, 249 Potatoes, diseases in, 119; cultivation of, 531 Prize-Fighters, crimes of, 326 Provinces, French, anecdotes of, 39 list of, 109, 242, 522 Quarantine Laws, 512 Queen's Champion, representation of, 143 Rail-roads, projected, 416 Raphoe, Bishop of, his death, 538 Realp, a Tale of the Swiss Mountains, 178 Savings Banks, summary of, 526 Scott, Sir Walter, recollections of, 207 Segourney, Mrs., her "Sketches" noticed, Servants, Irish, 432 Session, close of the, 86 Seymour, Rear-Admiral, services of, 540 Show-off, the scientific, 228 Sierra Leone, accounts from, 536 Sketches of Irish Highways, 190, 337 Societies, proceedings of. 112; the Zoolo- |