ministrations were still remembered with affectionate regard. He had gone for the benefit of change of air, to reside in the neighbourhood of Stirling, having but a few weeks ago preached his last sermon, in his usual health and spirits, at his former charge, Gargunnock.

THE HON. RICHARD RYDER.

On the 18th September, the Right Hon. Richard Ryder, at Westbrook Hay, Herts, aged 87. He started in life as the participator of the opinions of his elder brother, the Earl of Harrowby, and, under the Administration of Mr. Perceval, was appointed to the high office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, which he resigned in 1809, when he was replaced by Viscount Sidmouth. Mr. Ryder, on the nomination of the Liverpool Ministry, was re-appointed a Lord of the Treasury, having accepted that office in 1807, on the accession of the Duke of Portland to the premiership. He was succeeded at the Treasury in 1814, by Earl Bathurst, but did not finally retire from public life until the election of 1831, when he withdrew from the representation of Tiverton, for which borough he was returned to nine Parliaments, as the nominee of Lord Harrowby. In the last return of the civil and military offices, there was no detailed account of the Ecclesiastical Courts, consequently the emoluments of the Registrarship of the Consistory Court do not appear in that document, but it is supposed to be worth many thousands per annum. The Right Hon. Gentleman has left an only daughter by his marriage with a daughter of Sir John Skynner. Mrs. Ryder died in 1821.

SIR ALURED CLARKE, G.C.B. On the 16th September, died at the Vicarage, Llangollen, where he was on a visit to his niece, Mrs. Eyton, FieldMarshal Sir Alured Clarke, G.C.B. aged 87. He entered the army as an ensign seventy-three years ago, in 1792; and after passing through the subordinate ranks, he was appointed to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 7th Foot, 1777. He was advanced to the rank of Major-General 1790, Lieutenant-General 1797, Colonel

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The late Mr. Calvert, M.P. was Representative of the Borough of Southwark twenty years, having been first returned at the General Election in 1812. lamented gentleman's election was opposed in 1818, 1826, and 1830. On the last occasion it will be recollected he was defeated by the late Mr. Harris, on whose dissolution a few weeks subsequent to his return, Mr. Calvert was again selected by the electors for their representative. Mr. Calvert was about sixty years of age, and by his lady, a daughter of Sir William Rowley, he has left an infant family of four children. At the period of his union with Miss Rowley, there was a singular disparity in their ages, the Honourable Member having attained his fiftieth year, and the lady having just entered her twenty-first. He died of cholera, at the seat of his brother-in-law, Easton Hall, Saxmundham, Essex. Mr. Calvert was the gentleman who presided at a late meeting of Market Gardeners, and was at the time in robust health. On that occasion the interdict of the use of vegetables and fruits by the faculty, having been adverted to, Mr. Calvert said, "I have not ab stained from eating vegetables and fruits -the former boiled, and the latter ripeand I have experienced no ill effects from the indulgence, as my appearance will testify." This declaration and remark, coupled with Mr. Calvert's florid com. plexion and high health, elicited considerable applause, and was deemed by all who heard him, as decisive of the non-injurious effects resulting from the consumption of vegetables and fruits.

Louisa, youngest daughter of H. Chawner, Esq. of Newton Manor House, Hants.

At Chepstow, Monmouth, R. G. Cunningham, Esq. of Newland Park, Gloucestershire, to the Hon. Arabella Eliza Pery, eldest daughter of Viscount Glentworth.

At Chilton, Joseph, second son of the Rev. John Savill, of Halstead, Essex, to Susan, youngest daughter of Colonel Addison, of Chilton-hall, Suffolk.

At Whitechurch, Charles T. Gaskell, Esq. of Stanmore, Middlesex, to Charlotte, daughter of the late General Bruce, of Elstree, Herts.

At Hampstead, the Rev. G. G. Harvey, Rector of Horton, Staffordshire, to Sarah Frances, eldest daughter of T. Sheppard, Esq. of Hampstead Heath.

Russell Scott, Esq. of Upper Stamford-street, London, son of the Rev. Russell Scott, of Portsmouth, to Isabella, eldest daughter of Joseph Prestwick, Esq. of the Lawn, South Lambeth.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. Evan Nepean, youngest son of the late Right Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, of Loders, Dorset, to Anne, second daughter of Sir H. Jenner, Knt., his Majesty's Advocate General.

At Mawgan, Cornwall, Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq. of Trevarno, only son of Captain J. L. Popham, R.N., and nephew to the late Sir Home Popham, K. C.B., to Harriet Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Sir Vyell Vyvyan, Bart., and sister to the present Sir Richard R. Vyvyan, Bart. of Trelowarren.

At Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, by the Rev. Robert Scott, Lieutenant general White, of Upper Berkeley-street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Davison, Esq. of Swarland Park, Northumberland; and also Captain S. E. Cook, R. N. only son of the Rev. Jos. Cook, of Newton Hall, in the same county, to Dorothy Davison, youngest daughter of the above.

At St. James's, Frederick Seymour, Esq. to the Lady Augusta Hervey, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Bristol.

At Twickenham, William Ker Ashford, Esq. nephew to the Duchess Dowager of Roxburghe, to Maria Cordelia, eldest daughter of Lieutenantcolonel and the Hon. Mrs. Espinasse, of Twickenham.

At St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. T. O. Goodchild, Perpetual Curate of South Malling, Sussex, only son of Thomas Goodchild, Esq. of Mecklenburgh-square, to Ellen, eldest surviving daughter of Philip Perring, Esq. of Torringtonsquare.

Died.]-At Arran Lodge, Bognor, the Countess of Arran. Her Ladyship was the only surviving daughter of the late Sir John Tyrrell, of Heron Hall, Essex.

At his apartments in Chelsea College, in his 77th year, Sir Everard Home, Bart. SerjeantSurgeon to his Majesty.

At Oak-hill, Herts, Sir S. H. Clarke, Bart. At Leamington Priors, the Rev. R. B. Radcliffe, M.A. Rector of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, and Chaplain to the Marquis of Hastings At Ibstock Rectory, Leicestershire, Charlotte, relict of General George Worde, late of Woodland Castle, Glamorganshire, in the 76th year of her age. She was the only daughter of the Right Rev. Spencer Madan, D.D. late Lord Bishop of Peterborough, by the Lady Charlotte, his wife, sister of the first Marquis Cornwallis.

At Holme Pierrepoint, Anne Countess Dowager Manvers, in the 76th year of her age.

In the Albany, Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. of Faskine, N.B.

In Hereford Street, Lady Lowe, wife of Lieut.General Sir Hudson Lowe.

Of cholera, Lieut.-Colonel W. Forrest, of the East-India Company's Service. He was seized on the 28th ult. on board the Glasgow, and died in less than fifteen hours.

In Devonshire Place, the Rev. Dr. Stephens, of Southfield, Tonbridge, Kent, in the 79th year of his age.

At Bayswater, the Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D. F.A.S. of Heydon-hall, near Pinner, Middlesex, of cholera, in the 72d year of his age.

Suddenly, in his 41st year, at Carlisle, on his way to Edinburgh, Mr. Robert Spottiswoode, brother to Mr. Spottiswoode, the King's Printer. At Norwich, very suddenly, John Staniforth Patteson, Esq. Alderman for Mancroft Ward, and for many years an active Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of Norfolk, and also Lieut.Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia.

In the 70th year of his age, Mr. Edward Jeffery, bookseller, Pall-mall, for nearly fifty years a resident in that street.

At Chelmsford, in the 70th year of his age, much and deservedly respected, William Meggy, joint proprietor of the "Chelmsford Chronicle for upwards of forty years.

At Boudgea, near Smyrna, in the 88th year of his age, after a few days' illness, Francis Werry, Esq., late his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Smyrna.

At her house in Middle-street, Taunton, Mary Trewren, widow of the late Thomas Trewren, Esq., of Trewardreva, in Cornwall, and sister of Sir Thomas Hare, Bart., of Stowe Hall, Norfolk.

At her house in Belgrave-street, Belgravesquare, the lady of the late Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy. This venerable and respected lady died of the prevailing epidemic after a few hours attack.

At Blandford, in the 79th year of her age, Alicia Catherine, relict of the late James Brine, Esq.. Admiral of the White.

At Wrinted-court, in Kent, in the 75th year of his age, William Cooke, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel, and a Bencher of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

Lace makers and Straw-plat Workers.-The poor straw-plat workers in Dunstable, and the surrounding villages, are in the most dreadful state of misery, destitution, and want. The very same straw-plat for which they were paid, a few years since, half-a-crown a score, they can now only get sevenpence halfpenny a score forbarely sufficient to keep the poor creatures from actual starvation; and those who get this remuneration for their labour, are what are called "tip-top workers." Inferior workers can, with difficulty, get three halfpence the score. Straw bonnets, which some time ago would have fetched from 108. to 12s., may now be procured for 38. The manufacture of an article of lace, made by machinery (principally in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire), called bobbin-net, has experienced a still greater depreciation in value. The yard-wide bobbin-net, which about ten years ago met with a ready sale at sixty shillings per yard, is now retailed at sixteen-pence! The quilling-net, which at the same time sold for two shillings and sixpence a yard, is now selling at three-halfpence! Several hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of this article used to be exported to the continent, especially to France and to America; but the export trade is now entirely ruined-France and America not only being in the possession of English machinery, but English workmen, who are enabled not only to compete, successfully, with English-made goods, but to undersell us in foreign markets from fifteen to twenty per cent. The manufacture of thread or pillow-lace, in the counties of Buckingham, Bedford, and Northampton, is in the same depressed and deplorable state. The miserable workers, after labouring sixteen hours a day, cannot earn more than from 1s. 6d. to 28. per week! In the very best of times these poor creatures could not earn more than from 88. to 10s. a week; but their present distressed and pauperised situation is truly piteous.

DEVONSHIRE.

A Railway from Bideford to Okehampton has been projected, and surveys taken of the line. Government, it is rumoured, have it in contemplation to make Ilfracombe a Post-Office packet port.

DURHAM.

There is now, we have reason to believe, a prospect of the disputes between the coalowners and the pitmen being brought to an end. About a hundred of Lord Durham's men, we are informed, have refused to contribute six shillings in the pound out of their earnings to maintain the unemployed workmen in idleness. We trust that many more will have the good sense to follow their example.

LANCASHIRE.

one hundred and eleven acres, and the quay space extends to the length of eight miles within a few yards. The whole length of the river wall is twe miles eight hundred and twenty yards, exclusive of the openings.

Mortality in Manchester.—A curious paper has just been printed by order of the House of Com. mons; it is a return of the number of burials in Manchester from 1821 to 1830, specifying the number in each year, and the ages of those buried. The greatest number of deaths each year is found to be of those under one, which has varied from 371, the number in 1821, to 240, the lowest number, in 1826; the last year of the return, 1830, gives 368. There are some of what would be called remarkable coincidences: thus, for instance, in 1825 and 1826 the number of deaths between one and two years is in each 137; in 1824, 1825, and 1826 exactly twenty-four died in their fifth year; in 1823-4-5, the number of deaths in their eighth year was seven each. The smallest average on the ten years of deaths is at the age of 13, being fifty-four for the whole ten years, not an average of five and a half each. In 1822, of this age only two died; and in 1830, only one; the highest number was, in 1824, ten. The next most healthy age, judging from these tables, is 12; the whole for the ten years of that age being 57; and 11, whole number 59; the number of deaths at 39 is, for the ten years, 69, not quite seven annually. The same average, 7 and 2-10ths (72 for the ten years) is afforded by the ages of 8, 41, and 51. It is not until the age of 86 that any blank occurs in the number, and that is in the year 1822; of 90 there died in the ten years 19; of 91, 3; of 92,7; of 93, 9; of 94, only 2, both in 1827; of 95, 2; of 96, 2; of 97, 4; of 98, not one; of 99, 2, one in 1822, the other in 1830; of 100, 2, in 1828 and 1829; of 101, also 2, in 1821 and 1830; of 102, 1, in 1822, of 103, 1, in 1821. The register of Dissenters' burials does not give their ages; the number varies from 1726 in 1821, to 4383 in 1830; if we are to judge from this increase in the number of burials, of that of the Dissenters themselves, they must have increased in the ten years about 154 per cent. The whole number of deaths has varied from 3287 in 1821 to 5937 in 1830, and the number in the ten years has been, of all ages, 48,138, an average of 4813 and four-fifths.

Liverpool Parliamentary Reform Union.-At the meeting of the Union, a Report from the Committee, recommending the dissolution of the Association (the object for which it was formed having been happily accomplished), was submitted and approved of. It was then moved "That the Parliamentary Reform Union be now dissolved," which was carried unanimously, and the meeting separated.

SHROPSHIRE.

Antiquities. On the 1st August a barrow was