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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN LONDON, MIDDLESEX, AND SURREY.

With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased.

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THE friends and supporters of that interesting institution, the Asylum for the DEAF and DUMB, lately held their anni. versary festival at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, his royal highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair. The Duke of Gloucester, the enlightened and benevolent patron of the Deaf and Dumb, pronounced a warm eulogium on the institution, for the promotion of which the meeting had assembled, giving a luminous view of its advantages, and lamenting that, notwithstanding the extensive and increasing support it meets, with from all ranks, there still remains much to be done to meet the exigency of the cases. He stated the number of children now receiving education and maintenance in the Asylum to be upwards of 150, while upwards of 80 candidates were waiting for admission to participate in the blessings of a sort of new existence. The stewards then entered the rooni, conducting the children round the different tables, and the gratification his royal highness had promised was felt in a degree more easily conceived than described; not only did both sexes exhibit specimens of their penmanship and knowledge of arithmetic, but viva voce gave answers to questions proposed to them; and some of them spoke a short address to their benefactors, with a clearness of utterance and propriety of feeling that delighted while it astonished.

Great preparations are making by the Regent to receive the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia,in their proposed visit to London after the ratification of the general peace at Paris.

A true bill has been found against Lord Cochrane and seven others, said to be concerned in the hoax on the gamblers at the Stock Exchange.

Dr. FANSHAW MIDDLETON has been consecrated the first bishop of Calcutta at Lambeth Palace.

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200,0001. was during the past month awarded by the Lord Chancellor to the relations of a Mr. Barber, who on his return from India died at the hotel at which he put up in the Adelphi about 12 years ago. A notice of his death was inserted at the time in the Monthly Magazine, which being read by one of his poor relations in a distant. part of the kingdom, application was made to us, and other enquiries pursued, which have led finally to the division of his great property among his family.

MARRIED.

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The Rev. J. W. Vivian, to Miss Cathi. Griffin, of Bank Buildings.

Baron Uklanski, to Miss Emma Eyre. J. H. Eccles, esq. of Clapham Rise, to Miss H. Jenner, of Blackheath.

Thos. Conway, esq. of Somerset-street, to Miss M. A. Ramsey.

Henry Patteson, esq. of Doughty-street, to Miss Sus. Lee.

The Rev. John Penrose, to Miss Eliza Cartwright.

Hamilton Fitzgerald, esq. to Lady Eliz. Rawdon, sister of the Earl of Moira.

At Thirsk, Mr. F. Barough, of Hatton Garden, to Miss Lydia Arnett, of Sowerby, Yorkshire.

At Croydon, Mr. R. S. Cox, of Breadstreet, Cheapside, to Miss Sarah Maynard, of Farle-street.

J. A. Watson, esq. of Marchmont-street, to Miss Pilkington.

Lord George Quin, son to the Marquis of Headford, to Lady Georgiana Spencer, second daughter to Earl Spencer.

At Hanwell, Middlesex, Henry William Maister, esq. of Woodhall, in Holderness, to Miss Wilson, of Chelsea.

John Henry Smyth, esq. M.P. of Heatli, near Wakefield, to Lady Eliz. Ann Fitzroy, third daughter of his grace the Duke of Grafton.

Archibald Macaulay, esq. banker, to Miss Berry.

Edw. Paston, esq. of Appleton, in the county of Norfolk, to Mrs. Stapleton, of Thorington Hall, in Suffolk.

H. Busk, esq. of Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, to Miss Maria Green.

T. F. Hunt, esq. of the Stable-yard, St. James's, to Miss Charlotte Grobecker, of the same place.

Wm. Boyd, esq. of Brunswick-place, to Miss Christie, of Blackheath.

At Wittersham, Jos. Ranking, esq. of Bloomsbury-square, to Miss Gilpin.

Price Pugho, esq. of Finsbury-square, to Mrs. Moore, of Pimlico.

Robert Brown, esq. of Belvidere House Broadstairs, Kent, to Miss Hunt, of Ald gate.

Richard Potts, esq. of Hackney, to Mrs. Fowler, of Clifton.

At Wimbledon, the Count of St. Antonio, son of the Duke of Cannizzaro, to Miss Johnstone, of Hanover-square.

Mr. John Biggerstaff, of Islington, to Miss Esther Cozens.

Wm. Paxton Tewis, esq. to Miss Sophia Kneller.

At Harefield, Middlesex, L. D. Smith, esq. of Homerton, to Miss Harriet Spedding, of Harefield.

Thomas Naghten, esq. of Upper Har

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ley-street, to Miss Maria Lang, of Portland Place.

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At Finchley, J. Lermitte, esq. to Miss Eliz. Rhodes.

Mr. E. Walford, of Friday-street, to Miss Martha Ann Willett, of Brandon, Suffolk. Mr. Wm. Sully, of Reigate, Surrey, to Miss E. Elcock.

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In Arlington-street, J. C. Ramsden, esq. to Isabella, daughter of Lord Dundas. At Croydon, Mr. T. Argles, of Maidstone, to Miss Arnull, of Norwood.

Mr. J. Bayliss, of Bury street,St.James's, to Miss Eliz. Simpson.

At Hackney, John Goodman, esq. to Miss Austin, of Clapton.

At St. Luke's, Chelsea, Mr. M'Farland, to Miss Grant.

G. Fred. Young, esq. of Limehouse, to Mary, youngest dau. of J. Abbott, esq. Wm. Rickerby, esq. of Chelsea, to Miss Le Fevre.

Mr. Edward Wallace, surgeon, of Car. shalton, to Miss Anna Matilda Hovell.

M. Clark, esq. of Great Tower-street, to
Miss Catherine Squibb, of Saville Row.
At Greenwich, William Thomas, esq. of
Woolwich, to Miss Ann Mouchett, of Mul-
grave Place.

The Hon, and Rev. J. E. Boscawen, bro-
ther to Viscount Falmouth, to Catherine
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Arthur
Annesley, esq. of Bletchingdon Park,
Sussex.

The Rev. C. Bryan, M.A, rector of Wolaston, Gloucestershire, to Ellen, only daughter of the late Admiral Kempthorne. Lord Viscount Kennedy, to Miss Altardyce.

C. D. Donne, esq. of the Stamp Office, to Miss Andrews.

At Betchworth, Surrey, G. H. D. Penbant, esq. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Hon. W. H. Bouverie and Lady B. Bouverie.

Sir D. Ogilby, to Miss E. Dunkin, of Maidstone.

P. Warren, M. D. of Lower Brookestreet, to Penelope, eldest daughter of the Rev. W. D. Shipley, dean of St. Asaph.

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G. J. Cholmondeley, esq. to Catherine, daughter of Sir P. Francis, K.B.

T. N. Kemble, esq. of Mincing Lane, to Miss Virginia Clagett, of South Lambeth. The Rev. E. Edgell, of West Albington, Devon, to Miss Eliz. Wilson.

John Stafford, esq. chief clerk of the Public Office, Bow-street, to Miss Sarah Daubigny, of Rickmansworth,

Lieut. Garrett, to Charlotte, daughter of Lord E. Bentinck, brother to the late Duke of Portland.

Egerton Cutler, esq. of Great Queen-st. Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Jeremiah Belgrave, esq. of Stamford.

Mr. J. Whitaker, of Kinnersley, Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, to Emma, eldest daughter of J. Robins, esq. Piazza.

DIED.

Aged 17, Raymond, eldest son of D. Raymond Barker, esq. of York-street, Port

man-square.

Miss Matilda Blake, of Portland-place. Aged 73, John Crocker, esq. late Surveyor-General of Ireland, and father to the Secretary of the Admiralty.

Mrs. Hamilton, of Cumberland street, Portman-square.

Aged 84, Colonel W. Blair, of Stratfordplace.

At Peckham, 20, Mr. S. L. Robinson, of Great Suffolk-street, Charing Cross.

Aged 71, Joseph Heathcock, esq. of Islington.

Aged 33, Mrs. Sarah Lowell, of Botolph Lane.

Aged 31, Mrs. Ann Walround, of Oxfordstreet.

Alex. Anderson, esy. Hon. E. I. Company's service.

Aged 80, Thos. Bullock, esq. of Lambeth

Terrace.

At Hammersmith, 69, Mrs. Hannah Alder.

At Kentish Town, 79, Mr. John Young. Aged 43, Mr. John Tyers, of Albemarlestreet.

At Clapton, 34, Mr. Peter Augustus
Stoequeler, of Great St. Helen's.

In Mark Lane, Miss Lydia Sequeira.
In Weymouth-street, Portland place, 81,
Wm. Tripp, csq.

At Hackney, 65, Mrs. Warburton.

In Bedford-square, 58, Sam. Joseph, esq. At Forty Hill, Enfield, 75, Mr. Thomas Hill.

At Epsom, 47, G. Stackhouse, esq.

At Chelsea, 75, the Rev. J. Frith, A. M. 30 years curate of the united parishes of St. Mary, Aldermary, and St. Thomas the Apostle, Bow Lane.

At Hackney, 65, G. Taylor, esq. one of his majesty's justices of the peace of the county of Middlesex, and deputy-lieut. of the Tower Division.

At Brompton, 63, C. Sandys, esq. rearadmiral in his majesty's navy.

In Grosvenor-place, the Hon. Mrs. Payne, In Portland-place, C. Smith, esq. of Sutton, Essex.

At Brentford, Miss Catharine Rowe.
At Walton-upon-Thames, P. Hunt, esq.
At Cauon hill, Merton, 51, Mrs. Ann
Sherwood.

Aged 48, Mrs. Klein, of Lower Tooting,
Surrey.

Mrs. Bella Locke, of Lower Grosvenorplace.

At Stoke Newington, 89, W. Bird, esq. Mr. Isaiah Rogers, of Gray's Inn-square. At Hampton Wick, Charles Vibert de Massingy, Marquis de la Pierre, Chamberlain to the King of Sardinia, &c. &c.

In Wynyatt-street, Northampton-square, 61, Francisco Perreira Soares, esq. cur, R.N.

At Greenwich, 71, Captain John Mon

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In King's Bench Walks, IV. Hughes, esq. Clerk of the Papers.

At Clandon, 83, George Lord Onslow, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Surrey; a nobleman who was conspicuous in the early part of the French revolution for his political activity.

In Southwark, 54, Mrs. Abdy, wife of the Rev. W. Abdy.

At Pentonville, 69, Mr. Jas. Rendell. At Bath, 87, Admiral Alex. Hood, (Lord Viscount Bridport) K.B. His lordship was Admiral of the Red, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines. The title and estates devolve to his grandson the Hon. Samuel Hood, member for Heytesbury.

In Great Ormond-street, Mrs. Mary Stephenson.

In Foley-place, John Clarke, esq. of Sawbridge, Warwickshire.

In Wimpole-street, Sir Jas. Musgrave, bart. of Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire.

Mr. Daniel Jackson, many years a respectable cotton-merchant of Manchester. In London, 32, Captain Wilson, of the Dash.

At North End, 88, Mrs. Marshall.

At Kingswood Lodge, John Alcock, esq. lieut.-colonel commandant of the Princess Charlotte's regt. of Loyal Southwark Volunteer Infantry.

At Chelsea, 77, E. Holdich, esq. near 40 years apothecary of his majesty's household. At Mile End, at the advanced age of 100, Mrs. Cam, late of Hardwick, Gloucester. She has left two sons and ten daughters, upwards of forty grand-children, and nine great grand-children. She retained her faculties to the last, and could see to read and work at her needle without spectacles; and it is remarkable that her father and mother lived to the same age.

In Sloane-street, 72, John Stokes, esq. In Upper Wimpole-street, Mrs. Littledale.

At Brook Green, 58, Chas. Barker, esq. In Leman-street, 50, Chas. Danvers, esq. of Bristol.

At Kennington-place, Vauxhall, Mrs. Mary Marriott.

In Montague-square, the Hon. William Bucknall.

Iu Portman-square, Captain C. Stuart, of the R.N.

At Islington, 24, Henry, the youngest son of Francis Rivington, esq. MONTHLY MAG. No. 255.

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At Point-pleasant, near Kingston, 79, Lady Kent.

In Park-lane, the Hon. H. L. Grimstone, youngest son of Viscount G.

In Manchester-street, D. Bolton, esq. many years preceptor to the queen and princesses.

In Pall Mall, by his own hands, Mr. Wm. Gardiner, bookseller. [Of whom a further account will be given in our next.]

In Queen Anne-street, Jane, wife of G. Mercer, esq. eldest daughter of the late Sir Robt. Henderson, of Fordel, bart. Grief for the loss of her son, Lieut.-Col. Robert Mercer, of the 3d regt. of Guards, who fell at the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom, accelerated the termination of a life that was devoted to her family. Lieut.-Col. Mercer had served in Egypt, Hanover, Copenhagen, the Peninsula, and lastly in the Netherlands, where at the storming of Bergen-opZoom he commanded the light infantry com panies of the brigade of Guards. early part of that disastrous attack he received a wound, but remained in the field until a second ball terminated his existence, in the 31st year of his age.

At the

[Dr.Burney, (whose death was noticed in our last) was a gentleman whose celebrity was equally great in the literary and the musical world. He was a native of Shrewsbary, and born in 1726. He received the rudiments of his education at the free grammar-school of that town, and completed it at the public school of Chester. At the latter place he commenced his musical studies, under Mr. Baker, organist of the cathedral, who was a pupil of Dr. Blow. He returned to Shrewsbury about the year 1741, and continued the study of music, under his half-brother, Mr. Jas. Burney, who was an eminent organist and teacher in that town. In 1744 he met with the renowned Dr. Arne at Chester, who perceiving his talents to he respectable, prevailed upon his friends to send him to London, and he continued to profit under the instructions of that celebrated master fall three years, and published his first works in 1747. In 1749 he was elected organist of St. Dionis Back Church, Fenchurch-street, with an annual salary of only thirty pounds; and in the course of the same year was engaged to take the organ-part at the new concert established at the King's Arms, Cornhill, instead of that which had been held at the Swan Tavern, burnt down the year before. At this time he composed for Drury-lane Theatre, Robin Hood, a comic opera, by Moses Mendez; and Queen Mab, a pantomme; which last was played every winter for nearly thirty years. Being in an ill state of health, which, in the opinion of his physicians, indicated a consumption, he was prevailed upon to retire into the country. Accordingly he went to Lynn SP

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the most proper person to draw it up. Ac-
cordingly, in the same year, a splendid
volume was published by Dr. Burney, in
quarto, for the benefit of the musical fund.
In this work the Doctor displayed eminent
talents as a biographer; and the life of Han-
del is one of the best memoirs to be found
in our language. In 1796 he published the
"Life of Metastasio," in three volumes,
octavo; but this performance wants that
arrangement and judicious selection which
characterize his former publications.
sides these productions, Dr. Burney wrote
"The Cunning Man" "An Essay towards
the History of Comets" "A Plan of
Public Music School," &c. &c. His mu-
sical works, in addition to those already
mentioned, are: Sonatas for two Violins
and a Bass, two parts. Six Cornet Pieces,
with an introduction and Fugue for the
Organ. A Cantata and Songs. Six Duets
for two German Flutes. Six Concertos,
for Violins, &c. in eight parts. Two So-
natas for a Piano Forte, Violin, and Violon-
cellò, two parts. Six Harpsichord Les-
sons, &c. &c. Dr. Burney was twice mar-
ried, and has had eight children, of whom
several have manifested very superior abi-
lities. His eldest daughter was celebrated
for her extraordinary musical powers. The
second, Madame D'Arblay, is universally
known and admired as the author of Eve
lina, Cecilia, and Camilla. His eldest son,
James, sailed round the world with Captain
Cook, and afterwards commanded the
Bristol, of fifty guns, in the East Indies:
he has published some judicious tracts on
the best means of defending our island
against an invading enemy; and has com-
menced a history of Voyages of Discovery.
The second son, Charles Burney, LL.D.
was many years master of a respectable
academy at Greenwich, aud is well known
in the learned world by his profound
knowledge of the Greek language. His
youngest daughter is pursuing the career of
her sister as a novelist. For many years
Doctor Burney resided in the house in St.
Martin's-street, Leicester fields, which was
formerly occupied by Sir Isaac Newton;
but during the last twenty-five, having been
appointed organist of Chelsea-hospital, he
inhabited an elegant suit of apartments in
that college, and enjoyed a handsome in-
dependency. He was an excellent scholar,
and well acquainted with most of the Con-
timental languages. He was intimately ac.
quainted with all the distinguished cha-
racters who flourished in his time, as well
in other countries as in Great Britain, and
was in habits of peculiar friendship with
Dr. Johnson, of whom he used to relate
many interesting anecdotes. Indeed, soon
after the death of that colossus of learning,
he had some thoughts of giving a memoir
of him to the world, but the subject was so
overwhelmed by various publications, that

Regis, in Norfolk, where he was chosen
organist, with a salary of one hundred
pounds a-year. He continued there nine
years, and at that period formed the de-
sign of compiling his General History of
Music. In 1760, his health being re-esta-
blished, he gladly returned to the metro-
polis, with a large and young family, and
entered upon the pursuits of his profession
with an increase of profit and reputation.
His eldest daughter, who was then about
eight years old, obtained great notice in
the musical world by her astonishing per-
formances on the harpsichord. Soon after
his arrival in London, he composed several
much-admired concertos; and in 1766 he
brought out at Drury-lane Theatre, a
translation of Rousseau's Devin du Villuge,
which he had executed during his residence
at Lynn. It had, however, no great suc-
cess. In 1761 he had the honorary degree
of Doctor of Music conferred upon him
by the University of Oxford; on which
occasion he performed an exercise in the
musical school of that university. This
exercise, consisting of an anthem of great
length, with an overture, airs, recitatives,
and chorusses, was several times afterwards
performed at the Oxford music meetings,
under the direction of the famous Emanuel
Bach. In the year following he travelled
through France and Italy, as well with a
view to improvement, as to collect mate-
rials for his intended History of Music, an
object which he never had ont of his mind,
from the time he first conceived the plan of
'such a work. In 1771 he published his
"Musical Tour; or, Present State of Mu-
sic in France and Italy." A work which
was well received by the public, and
deemed so good a model for travellers, that
Dr. Johnson professedly adopted it in his
account of the Hebrides. Speaking of his
own book, " I had," said the Doctor," that
clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my
eye." In 1772 he travelled through the
Netherlands, Germany, and Holland, and
in the course of the next year he published
an account of his journey in two volumes
octavo. In the same year he was elected a
fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 ap-
peared the first volume in quarto, of his
General History of Music." The re-
maining volumes of this elaborate and in-
telligent work, were published at irregular
periods; and the four, of which it now con-
sists, were not completed till the year
1789. In 1779, at the desire of Sir Johm
Pringle, Dr. Burney drew up from the Phi-
losophical Transactions, "An Account of
Little Crotch the Infant Musician," now
Professor of Music in the University of
Oxford. The grand musical festival in
1785, in commemoration of Handel, held in
Westrunster Abbey, was considered as de-
serva of a particular memoir; the his-
torian of music was therefore fixed upon as

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he relinquished his design. In all the re-
lations of private life, his character was
exemplary as a husband, father, and friend.
His manners were peculiarly easy, spirited,
and gentlemanly, and he had all the graces
of the Chesterfield school, without any of
its studied formality. His remains were
deposited in the burying-ground belonging
to Chelsea College, and the funeral was
numerously attended by the governor, de-
puty-governor, and chief officers of the
college, and by the family and friends of
this accomplished and excellent man. The

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procession moved from the apartments of the deceased, in the College, at one o'clock; the pall was borne by the Hon. F. North, Sir G Beaumont, Dr. Moseley, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Rogers, the poet, and Mr. Salomon: amongst the followers were, Captain Burney, Dr. C. Burney, Mr. M. Burney, Mr. D'Arblay, Rev. C. P. Burney, Messrs. E. Burney, C. Raper, Barrett, Sir D. Dundas, Colonel Matthews, Dr. W. Moseley, Captain Nunn, Messrs. North, Payne, Ayrton, M. Raper, &c. &c,

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES,
WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

NORTHUMBERLAND and DURHAM.

for preventing any advance whatever on

CONSIDERABLE activity has prevail the prices at which grain may be im

ed at Newcastle, in opposition to the
new Corn Laws, and the proceedings there
have had an effect on the decisions of the
legislature. Mr. Jos. CLARK and Mr. J.
MITCHELL, of the Tyne Mercury, received
the thanks of their townsmen for their
zeal in bringing this great public question
under their notice. The following is the
petition agreed upon, and signed by 11,500
persons in a few hours.

To the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the undersign-
ed Merchants, Manufacturers, Tra
ders, and other the inhabitants of
the Town and County of Newcas-
tle-upon-Tyne,

SHEWETH,

That your petitioners, ever anxious for the happiness and prosperity of the United Kingdom, have learnt with the deepest regret, that certain alterations of the existing Corn Laws have been proposed to parliament, having for their avowed object the raising of the import prices of grain.

That your petitioners are of opinion, that those alterations are of a nature calculated to involve the vital prosperity of the country, and to compromise its commercial greatness for the temporary advantage of the opulent landholders of the kingdom.

ported.

The Taylors of Newcastle cannot well be expected to be able-bodied men, when, as appears by their public advertisement, their best hands get but 17s. or 18s. per week, and many but 10s. or 12s. It, however, merits notice, that the masters declare the combination of the men to be "unprincipled," and made for the purpose of raising the wages from 24s. to 27s. It is to be regretted, that the wages of labour should not, in these times of fluctuation, be fixed in the same proportion to the price of wheat, which they bore to each other, in the three years between 7 and 10 years before; and the price settled by the ap peal of six masters or twelve journeymen, to the quarter sessions for the county.

The agricultural society for the county of Durham, at their meeting held at Darlington, on Easter Monday, adjudged and paid the following rewards, viz.: to Mr. Thomas Gibson, of Twisdale, near Chesterle-street, 3 guineas for the best coach stallion; to Mr. Wetherell, of Denton, 3 gui neas for the best bull; and to Mr. Arrowsmith, of Ferryhill, 3 guineas for the best

Cow.

On the 10th, Newcastle was splendidly illuminated in celebration of the return of peace, and the foundation of a new instituThat your petitioners cannot but remark, tion was laid by the mayor, to be called, with the most unfeigned regret, the unhal- "The Peace and Unity Hospital for aged lowed attempts of the men who are not Freemen and their Widows." Some good. only endeavouring to render of little advan- would truly come out of great evils, if tage to the people the enjoyment of the blessings the Divine Goodness is now pour ing upon the nation, but also to spread ruin and devastation throughout our manufactories, aunihilate the foreign markets, and force the emigration of our artists to countries where the means of supporting them may be the more easily attained.

Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly implore your lordships to adopt such measures as to your lordships shall seem meet,

every town in the empire were to celebrate the same event in the same worthy manner,

A new turnpike road is to be made between North Shields, Newcastle, and Morpeth Castle, with three branch roads.

A Pitt Club is announced at Newcastle,' by Messrs. C. J. Brandling, J. Carr, W. Bur nell, R. Pearson, W. Loraine, and J. G. Clarke. Its toasts, which will doubtless express its objects and principles, shall be given in our next.

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