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Lord Rendlesham.-Earl of Donoughmore."

the complicated workings of human passion; and supplies the ample and varied ingredients of human bliss and of human woe. Her delineations of character uniformly display the touches of a masterhand. She sketched with a rapidity and decision, and with a truth and force of colouring, which may be aptly compared to the most striking productions of her brother's bold and rapid pencil upon canvass. Her portraits have all the personal individuality, and all the force and vividness of real life. There was much of the romantic of gone-by times in Miss Anna Maria Porter's mind, which may be traced in some of the incidents of her tales. But this never blinded her judgment in her estimate of the actual condition of society. Her representations of living manners are always true to nature; and her familiar intercourse with persons moving in the highest circles enabled her to delineate, with a fidelity not often to be found, the discriminating peculiarities, feelings, usages, and language of the more polished and privileged classes. Her writ ings are also marked by a high tone of moral feeling, an excellence above all praise equally pervading the publications of her amiable sister. Her style is characterised by a graceful ease and fluency, admirably adapted to her immediate purpose; her narratives are inartificial, smooth, and spirited; her dialogues possess all the flexibility and point of the best conversation; and her didactic lessons are delivered with a simple gravity and force irresistibly impressive and affecting. In private life, Miss Porter was distinguished for the purity and elevation of her moral character. Her pleasing manners, the affability of her temper, and her extraordinary powers of conversation, won for her the esteem and affection of a large circle of acquaintance, by whom her departure will long be deeply deplored. With the public she has left a well-earned reputation, which will, we doubt not, transmit her name with honour to a remote futurity.

LORD RENDLESHAM.

At Anteuil, near Paris, the Right Hon. John Lord Rendlesham, of Rendlesham, Suffolk. He was grandson of the eccentric Mr. Thellusson, whose extraordinary will caused so much interest some years ago. Mr. Thellusson, after bequeathing large fortunes to his family, devised the residue of his immense possessions, namely, landed estates of the annual value of 4500l. and personal property to the amount of 900,000l. to trustees, for the purpose of accumulation during the lives of his three sons, and of all their sons who should be living at the time of his death, or should be born in due August.-VOL. XXXVI. NO. CXL.

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course afterwards, and the lives of the sur vivors of them; the accumulated fund then to be expended in the purchase of estates, and to be conveyed to the eldest male descendant of his three sons, with the benefit. of survivorship. This strange will was mooted before the House of Lords, but eventually confirmed by that branch of the. legislature, 25th June, 1805. An act of parliament, however, subsequently passed to interdict in future any accumulation of property so devised beyond a term of twenty-one years. It was once calculated that the accumulations in Mr. Thellusson's property would by this time, have amounted to 70,000,000l.; but from an observation of the Lord Chancellor, on a recent occasion, in the Court of Chancery, when Sir Edward Sugden opposed the petition of Mr. Charles Thellusson, it appears that the parties to whom the management of this vast property was intrusted, had so acted, that the accumulation will not exceed 1,200,000l. The late Lord Rendlesham was grandson of Mr. Thellusson, whose eldest son was advanced to the Irish peerage in 1806, by the title of Baron Rendlesham, of Rendlesham, in the county of Suffolk. The late Lord succeeded to the family honours in 1808, and by his second marriage with Sophia, second daughter and co-heir of William Tatnall, Esq. had three children, of whom two survive, but, as they are daugh ters, they will derive no interest under their great-grandfather's will. The Hon. and. Rev. William Thellusson, next brother to the late peer, succeeds to the title by the demise of his brother without issue male. The heir to the enormous wealth of Mr. Peter Thellusson is, we believe, the infant son of Mr. Charles Thellusson, a youth now in his eleventh year, who, on attaining his majority, will enter on the possession of this vast property. According to the provisions of the will, the present Lord Rendlesham, and his brother, the Hon. Arthur Thellusson, will not inherit any portion of the property. The object of Mr. Charles Thellusson's petition to the Lord Chancellor, which his Lordship could not grant, was, that he might be allowed, during a part of the year, to reside upon the estate of Brodsworth, where, it appears, an extensive establishment is maintained by the trustee.

GENERAL THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE.

The late Earl of Donoughmore obtained a commission as a cornet in 1774, and a lieutenancy in 1775, in the 18th regiment of dragoons. He was promoted in 1776 to a company, and 1781, to a majority in the 67th (South Hampshire) regiment of foot. He obtained, in 1783, a lieutenant-colonelcy in the 77th (East Middlesex) regiment of infantry. He was appointed, on the 1st of 3 A

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Sir James Macdonald.-Prince Camillo Borghese. August 1,

March, 1794, colonel by brevet; was raised, on the 3d of May, 1796, to the rank of majorgeneral, on the 25th of September, 1803, to that of lieutenant-general, and, on the 4th of June, 1813, to that of general. He obtained the colonelcy of the 18th (Royal Irish) regiment of foot, on the 27th of April, 1811, and was subsequently appointed Governor of Stirling Castle. His Lordship served as aide-de-camp to the late General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, during the campaigns in Flanders; he served in Ireland during the rebellion, and was second in command at the battle of Castlebar; he also had a command in the expedition to the Helder. General Lord Hutchinson was appointed second in command in the memorable expedition to Egypt, and on the death of the lamented General Abercrombie, the chief command of the British army devolved on his Lordship. His despatches, which announced the death of the gallant Abercrombie, were very much admired, and part of them were entered on the Journals of the House of Commons, when the House voted their thanks to the brave army in Égypt. In allusion to the death of General Abercrombie, his Lordship stated "his memory will be recorded in the annals of his country, will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity." He had the honour of being created for his services a peer of the realm, and a knight of the military order of the Bath. His Lordship was subsequently employed on a mission to the Court of St. Petersburgh. He succeeded, on the death of his brother, to the Earldom of Donoughmore.

SIR JAMES MACDONALD.

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At his house, in Spring Gardens, died Sir James Macdonald, late M. P. for Hampshire. His health had been long in a delicate state, and he was persuaded to accept the office of Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, in the hope that the climate of the Mediterrancan islands would contribute to restore his health; for which purpose he had just quitted the Board of Control. Sir James Macdonald was the only son of the late Right Hon. Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by Lady Louisa Leveson Gower, eldest daughter of Granville, first Marquess of Stafford, and sister by half blood to the present wealthy nobleman of that title. He was in his 49th year, had been thrice married; first, in 1805, to a lady named Sparrow; secondly, in 1819, to Lady Sophia Keppell, eldest daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, who survived her marriage five years, and by whom he has left a son and heir; and thirdly, in 1826, to Anne Charlotte, youngest daughter of the Rev. J. S. Ogle, the present Lady Macdonald.

PRINCE CAMILLO BORGHESE.

Prince Camillo Borghese, the brotherin-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, died at Florence on the 8th of June. He was born at Rome in July, 1775, and having served Napoleon with more than common zeal as a volunteer, during the campaigns in Italy of 1796 and 1797, was selected, as well on this account as in consequence of his princely connections and descent, for the hand of his second sister, Pauline, the widow of General Leclerc, which he received in 1803. In 1805, he was created a peer of France, and received a colonel's commission in the Imperial Guards; in 1806, he was raised to the dukedom of Gaëta; he then took part in the Prussian and Russian campaigns, during which he was sent to Warsaw to rally the Poles round their national banner, and after the treaty of Tilsit, took up his residence at Turin, in the character of Governor-General of the Transalpine departments, and in that station acquired the esteem and confidence of all classes, by the kindliness of his manners, and his judicious and dignified conduct. Here he remained until the year 1814, when the Napoleon dynasty and empire fell to pieces. He thence selected Rome for a while as his residence, but shortly afterwards removed to the more splendid roof of his illustrious ancestry in Florence, which he never quitted to the day of his death, and under which he found a delightful solace in the friendship of the present amiable Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Princess Pauline remained in Rome, where her consort appropriated one half of a spacious patrimonial mansion to her use. His education had been much neglected; but nature made him amends by endowing him with a brave and generous heart, and a more than common share of sound understanding. Long before the fall of his brother-in-law, Napoleon, he deeply deplored the frightful lengths to which his ambition was impelling him, and never concealed the assurance, which he felt, that they would ultimately lead to his ruin. His union with the sister was conceived in indifference, and speedily succeeded by aversion and total separation; in fact, the tastes and habits of this accomplished and beautiful creature were at utter variance with all conjugal ties and duties. The brightest part of her life has been the fond affection, which she evinced towards her brother when exiled to Elba, where she shared and softened the rigour of his transient banishment. So determined, however, was the late prince to avoid even the chance of intercourse with her, that he walled up every passage and avenue leading from her half of the palace in Rome to his own! Her residence soon became the rallyingcircle of the most distinguished residents in that capital, both native and exotic. The

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General Lamarque.—Incidents.

late Prince Camillo was banished the soil of France, as one of the members of the Napoleon family, and never re-trod it from the hour of its downfall, excepting on one occasion, when he was commissioned by Pius VII. to present the French sovereign with a valuable mosaic table. He has left no issue behind him; his immense property descends therefore to his younger brother, Prince Borghese Aldobrandini, who distinguished himself under the Imperial standard, by his signal bravery in the Prussian, Russian, and Austrian campaigns, and rose to be a Major-General in the French service, and first gentleman of the chamber to Napoleon.

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above all, in Italy, by the miracle of the taking of Caprea, he was selected to proceed to reduce Calabria, and immediately after recalled to Spain, where he engaged in a contest the most obstinate and the most difficult. The fights of Atta Julia, Tarragona, Ripouil, Col-Sacro, Baguelas, and of Salad, add to his reputation. He did not return to France until 1814, and was not em ployed during the first restoration. But on his return from Elba, Napoleon gave him successively the command of Paris, and of a division on the Belgian frontier; and named him, in the month of May, General in Chief of the army of La Vendée. On the second restoration, Lamarque was inscribed in the list of proscriptions of the 24th July, 1815. After his re-entry into France, in 1818, he General Maximilian Lamarque died at published, under the title of "Necessity of a Paris on Friday, June 1., at the age of sixty. Permanent Army,” a work bearing the imHe was born at St. Sèvre, in 1772; he enter- press of high thought, and giving evidence ed the army as a private soldier, and soon be- of his wise experience and his long toils. came a captain of grenadiers in that infernal He devoted his pen to France, and during column which had at its head Latour d'Au- late years contributed to the patriotic jourvergne, the first grenadier of France. At nals a great number of remarkable articles, twenty years of age, he was Adjutant-Ge- principally on foreign politics, when the neral, and his name known to all the French nation called him, in 1826, to the Chamber armies. The wars of the Republic, the cam- of Deputies. The melancholy circumpaigns of Austerlitz, Tyrol, Naples, Wagram, stances that arose out of his death are demark his important services. Celebrated, tailed elsewhere.

GENERAL LAMARQUE.

INCIDENTS, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, APPOINTMENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Cholera. The following return cannot fail to lessen the alarm which has been lately so prevalent as to the spread of cholera. It is an account of burials for six parishes on the south side of the river, as directed to be made out by the Commissioners of Police, showing the number of deaths which have occurred in each parish, from June 16. to July 13. 1831; and from June 16. to July 13. 1832:

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The Privy Council has authorised Boards of Health to expend a certain sum of money, the amount being fixed by the vestry, for the purpose of furnishing medicine, assistance, &c., to the sick poor at their own houses, when they cannot be conveniently removed to the Cholera Hospital; — to cleanse and whitewash any house in which there exist dangerous impurities to remove any offal or filth from slaughter-houses-to engage medical inspectors to visit all lodginghouses for the reception of vagrants-to open sewers, or cover drains, ditches, and cesspools, the parishes undertaking to defray the expense-to purchase lands for buryinggrounds-to pay the funeral expenses of persons dying of cholera-to enter any house at seasonable time to remove all swine out of dwelling-houses-and to adopt the necessary means for carrying these regulations into effect. It is also provided that no person dying of cholera shall be interred in the usual burying-grounds; and that the funeral of such person shall take place within 24 hours from the time of the death.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. James Lupton, M. A., to the Rectory of the United Parishes of St. Michael and St. Trinity, Queenhithe, void by the cession of Dr. Russell. The Rev. E. Bushby, Fellow and Tutor of St.

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Preferments.-Appointments Marriages.

John's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Impington.

The Rev. J. W. Butt, M. A., Rector of Southery, to the Mastership of Bromley School, Kent, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. H. B. Hibbert.

The Rev. Charles Joseph Orman, A.M., to the Perpetual Curacies of Shouldham and Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk.

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to the Navy and Victualling Boards, has already been acted upon, those Boards having ceased to exist on Saturday last. The duties hitherto performed by them will in future be conducted by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who have selected as their principal officers to assist them in managing the civil affairs of the Navy - Captain William Symonds, as Surveyor of the Navy; J. T.

The Rev. Charles Smyth, to the Vicarage of Briggs, Esq., as Accountant-General of the Navy; Alfriston, Sussex.

The Rev. J. S. Stockwell, M. A., to the Rectory and Prebendal Church of North Newnton, and to the Rectory of Wilton with the Chapel of Netherhampton annexed, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. W. Hetley, B.D.

The Rev. R. Gwatkin, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Barrow-upon-Soar, in the county of Leicester; and the Rev. J. T. Austen, Fellow of the same Society, to the Vicarage of Aldworth, Berkshire.

The Rev. T. H. Tasker, Fellow and Tutor of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Soham, in the same county, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Haggit.

The Rev. D. Twining, Rector of Stilton, Hunts, to the Rectory of Therfield, near Royston, Herts. The Rev. G. Boulton, M. A., to the Rectory of Charlwelton, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of Dr. Lamb.

The Rev. C. E. Kennaway, M.A., late Fellow of

St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Chipping Bamden, Gloucestershire, void by the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel.

The Rev. J. B. Harrison, B.D., Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Everley, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Smith.

Earl Cornwallis has appointed the Rev. Edward Moore, M. A., late of Brasennose College, Oxford, to be one of his Domestic Chaplains.

The Rev. A. W. Schomberg, M. A., to the Rectory of Felthorp, in the county of Norfolk.

The Rev. Samuel Stone, M. A., of Caius College, to the Rectory of St. Augustine's, Norwich, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich,

The King has been pleased to grant the Arch. deaconry of the Isle of Man to the Rev. B. Philpot,

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The Rev. Dr. Davy, Master of Caius College, has

the Hon. Robert Dundas, as Storekeeper-General of the Navy; James Meek, Esq., as Comptroller for Victualling the Navy; and Sir William Burnett, as Physician to the Navy.

In a convocation holden in the theatre of Oxford, June 21, the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on the following gentlemen, as persons eminently distinguished in the scientific

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At Catton, near Norwich, the Rev. E. H. Raven. hill, B. A., to Alicia Honoria Harriette,. only child of G. F. Harvey, Esq. of Catton, and grand-daughter of the Earl of Cavan.

The Hon. and Rev. Everard Robt. Bruce Fielding, to Anne Henrietta Boughey, eldest daughter of the late Sir John Boughey, Bart. of Aqualate, Staf. fordshire.

Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., M.P. of Hawkstone, Shropshire, to Ann, only surviving child of the late Joseph Clegg, Esq. of Peplow Hall, in the same county, and grand-daughter of the late Arthur Clegg, Esq. of Irwell Bank

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Maclachlan, of the Royal Artillery, to Elizabeth Mary Harvey, daughter of the late Colonel Colebrooke, of the Royal Artillery.

At Madras, Major Legget, of the Madras Light been appointed to the Prebendal Stall of Heathfield, Infantry, to Caroline, youngest daughter of Sir R. in the diocese of Chichester, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Fulham.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

The King has conferred the honour of Knighthood upon Major-General Frederick William Mul caster, of the Royal Engineers, Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

Major-General Joseph Straton, Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanove rian Guelphic Order.

John Leslie, of Coates, Esq. Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute of France.

His Majesty has conferred the honour of Knight. hood upon Edward Thomason, of Birmingham, Esq. The power vested in the Crown by a recent Act of Parliament to recall the patents formerly granted

Baker, of Montague-place, Russell-square.

At Naples, Daniel M'Carthy, Esq. to Harriet Alexandrina Basset, youngest daughter of Sir H. Popham, K.C.B. K. M. &c.

At Gaddesby, J. Ewart, Esq., of Liverpool, to Eliza, only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Cheney,

At Bridlington, the Rev. Robert Wilberforce, Vicar of East Folly, Kent, son of William Wilberforce, Esq. formerly M.P. for Yorkshire, to Agnes Frances Everilda, eldest daughter of the Rev. Archdeacon Wrangham, and grand-daughter of the late Colonel Creyke, of Marton.

William Tobias Langdon, Esq. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of the Middle Temple, to Margaret, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Sampson, Rector of Groton, Suffolk, and of Petersham, Surrey.

At St. George's Church, by his Grace the Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, Viscount Acheson, son of the Earl of Gosford, to Lady Theodosia Brabazon, only daughter of the Earl of Meath.

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Marriages.-Deaths, Provincial Occurrences.

*Sir Powlett Orde, Bart. of Kilmory, Argyleshire, to Beatrice, youngest daughter of the late James Edwards, Esq. of Pall Mall, London, and Harrow on the Hill.

At Munich, a daughter of Lord Erskine, the English Ambassador at the Court of Bavaria, to the Count de Baumgarten.

At Dunleez, Lord De Tabley, to Nina, daughter of Count De Salis.

At Paxton House, Berwickshire, the Hon. A. F. Cathcart, youngest son of the Right Hon. Earl Catheart, to Margaret, second daughter of W. F. Home, Esq. of Billy and Paxton.

At Richmond, Barrington Reynolds, Esq. Captain R. N., of Penair, Cornwall, to Eliza Anne, third daughter of M. Dick, Esq. of Richmond Hill, Sur. rey.

At Edinburgh, James Balfour Ogilvy, Esq. son of the late Sir William Ogilvy, Bart. of Inver. quharity, to Anne, only daughter of the late Tho. mas Kinloch, Esq. of Kilrie.

At St. Mary's Church, Bryanstone Square, Geo. Damer, third son of the Right Hon. Sir H. Parnell, Bart. M.P., to Catherine, daughter of Sir J. St. Aubyn, Bart.

The Rev. Robert Wooding Sutton, M. A. Rector of Layer Breton, Essex, to Sarah, second daughter of Thomas Hayter, Esq. of Brixton, Surrey.

The Rev. W. Goodenough Bayly, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Master of Midhurst School, to Maria Julia, eldest daughter of J. Rigby, Esq. of Golden Square.

Died.]-In Berkeley Square, the venerable Duch. ess of Manchester, mother of the present Duke of Manchester, the Duchess of Montrose, and of Lady Emily Montagu, in the 92d year of her age.

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At Brighton, after her confinement, Louisa Maria, wife of Walter Nugent, of Merrion Square, Dublin, Esq. and daughter of the Rev. John Digby, of Lan, denstown, County Kildare, Ireland.

Near Seringapatam, in the 42d year of his age, Major R. Murcott, of the 36th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry.

After a few days' illness, Lord Amesbury, aged 84. As Mr. Dundas, he represented the county of Berks for nearly half a century, and has only recently been elevated to the Peerage.

In Spring Gardens, Sir James Macdonald, Bart. of Woolmir Lodge, Hants, recently appointed Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, in the room of Sir F. Adam.

At Knocklofty House, the Right Honourable the Earl of Donoughmore, G.C.B. and K. C., Governor of Stirling Castle, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Tipperary, &c. &c. &c. in his 78th year. In Bath, Sir William Chambers Bagshawe, of the Oaks, in the county of Derby.

At Edinburgh, Sir James Hall, the eminent philosopher.

At Canterbury, Mrs. Mount, relict of the late Richard Mount, Esq.

On the 20th of January, 1832, at Kandy, in Ceylon, after a short but painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, the Rev. Thomas Ireland, late Chaplain to His Majesty's Forces at Kandy. He had passed sixteen years, as Military Chaplain, successively, at Trincomalee, the Cape of Good Hope, Graham's Town, and in Ceylon; he fulfilled the duties in a most exemplary manner. He was much respected, and sincerely beloved and regretted by all who knew him intimately.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

HERTS

A clothing club, on a new plan, for assisting the industrious poor, and promoting in their families careful and saving habits, has just been formed in the parishes of Ware and Amwell. It is supported by the subscriptions of the more wealthy part of the community, who, for every 5s., have the right to nominate a member. The members pay the trifling sum of two-pence every Saturday morning to the treasurers of the Club. At Christmas they receive in clothing the amount of their respective subscriptions, and a share of all the contributions.

KENT.

The eastern part of Kent has been visited by an alarming appearance of the atmosphere; in almost every part the electric fluid illuminated the heavens, and often presented them in one blaze. From all the accounts that have reached us, it appears the heaviness of the storm was most severely felt at Margate, the effects of which it is almost impossible to describe. Even those who were well acquainted with tropical climates allowed that they had seldom seen one in which the hail was more destructive. Not less than 15,000 panes of glass are computed to have been destroyed by it in that town, while in the nearly adjoining village of Birchington no injury whatever was done.

a vault in the churchyard of Pluckley, Kent, discovered gold and silver coins to the value of nearly 1507. The dates of many of them cannot be de ciphered; but there are not less than five gold coins of Augustus Cæsar!

LANCASHIRE.

The Liverpool dock dues received during the pre, sent year, are considerably less than those received last. The receipts up to the 24th of June, 1831, were 200,172. 13s. 4d., whilst the receipts up to the same period this year have been only 186,4157. 9s. 9d. They still, however, exhibit an increase of nearly 20,000,, when compared with the year 1830. The number of vessels entered during the last twelve months is 12,928, the tonnage 1,540,057; giving an increase in the number of ships of 391, and a decrease in the amount of ton. nage, 52,379 tons.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

The Tyne Mercury says, that "between 8000 and 9000 of the pitmen are still out of employment, and continue to be supported by those who are at work. Their principal other source of subsistence is begging about the country."

SOMERSET.

The Tunnel at Hornhill, between Beaminster and

"Ancient Coins. -Some men, in the act of digging Crewkerne, has been opened.

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