82 Incidents.-Ecclesiastical Preferments. thraldom again excited all his energies. It has been insinuated that the General and his unfortunate companions were compelled to quit Gibraltar by the severe police exercised in that fortress against refugees from Spain. Nothing can be more unfounded than this statement: so far from the Constitutionalists who have perished at Malaga having been driven from Gibraltar by the harsh proceedings of the Governor of that place, they were repeatedly assured by him that they might have passports and protection from the English Government to any ports, except a Spanish one. The unfortunate party that sailed for Malaga quitted the Bay of Gibraltar without the knowledge of the Governor, and it was not till next morning that he was informed of their departure by the Spanish Consul, one of the agents employed to allure them to destruction. They had intended to have sailed for Algiers, when two Spanish officers came to them from Malaga with assurances that the troops quartered in that neighbourhood were so much dissatisfied with the government of Ferdinand, that they were ready to join the Constitutional party. A place of rendez Feb. 1, vous was appointed, to which the emigrants were to repair, and to be then joined by the soldiers. Trusting to these assurances, Torrijos and his companions embarked in the night, and sailed to the place of their destination, on approaching which they were pursued by a Spanish garda-costa, and compelled to disembark at some distance from the place appointed. On landing, they proceeded to the farm-house where they were to be joined by the soldiers, and arrived there in safety, after having made a tour round the town. They found the place, as they suspected, uninhabited; and when they saw troops advancing towards them, they conceived it was the regiments that were to join them, and had no suspicions of the fraud practised against them till they were surrounded and made prisoners. They were immediately tried by a court-martial and condemned to be shot; but the execution of the sentence was suspended until a messenger returned from Madrid, who was sent with an account of what had happened. Ferdinand confirmed the sentence, which was carried into execution the following Sunday, at ten o'clock. INCIDENTS, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, APPOINTMENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Extensive surveys have been made between Southwark and Greenwich, preparatory to the formation of a rail-road from the south side of London Bridge to the parish of St. Alphage, Greenwich, and to which is intended to be added numerous branch tramroads, with warehouses, wharfs, and premises, for the more speedy transit of goods and passengers. The tolls are to be regulated by an Act of Parliament, and a Bill to carry the measure into effect will be submitted to the Legislature in the course of the next Session. Law Institution.-His Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a charter of incorporation, on the petition of Mr. Adlington, Mr. Brandett, Mr. Frere, and Mr. Tooke, to this Institution, by the style of "The society of attorneys, solicitors, proctors, and others, not being barristers, practising in the courts of law and equity of the United Kingdom;" thus giving full effect to the arrangements contemplated by the handsome building and hall of the institution recently erected in Chancery-lane, and intended to comprise a complete library-hall, or professional meeting and club-house, and calculated, by the care which will be taken to discountenance all unworthy practices, to stamp that respectability on the profession collectively which has hitherto been only conceded individually. The Royal College of Surgeons have addressed to Government a very strong remonstrance, in the shape of a memorial, on the present state of the laws respeting dissection. They particularly point out the absurdity of demanding from surgeons, as they are bound to do by charter, a correct knowledge of anatomy, while by the common law no man can possess or dissect a dead body (except it be the body of a felon, specially given for dissection) without being chargeable with a misdemeanour. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. E. Nepean, M.A. of Trinity College, to the Rectory of Heydon, in Norfolk, on the presentation of W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq. of Heydon Hall. Viscount Melbourne has appointed the Rev. lordship's domestic chaplains. II. W. Lloyd, of Magdalene College, one of his The Rev. J. Wilkinson, of Alne, has been presented by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Norwich, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cawood, in the West Riding of the County of York. The Rev. Henry Thorpe, M.A. to the Rectory of Ashton-le-Wall, in Northamptonshire; patrons, the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The Rev. E. R. Mantell, Vicar of Louth, Lincolnshire, to the Living of Titney, same county, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Jolland. The Rev. E. W. Clarke, of Jesus College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Great Yeldham, Essex, 1832. Appointments, Promotions.-Marriages.-Deaths. on the presentation of Sir W. Beaumaris Rush, of Wimbledon House, Surrey. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to erect and establish a Court of Judicature, to be called "The Court of Bankruptcy ;" and also to constitute and appoint the Hon. Thomas Erskine, one of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to be Chief Judge of the said Court; Albert Pell, one of his Majesty's Sergeants-at-Law; John Cross, one of his Majesty's Sergeants-at-Law, and Attorney-General for the County Palatine of Lancaster; and George Rose, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, to be the other Judges of the said Court; and also to constitute and appoint Charles Frederick Williams, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law; John Herman Merivale, Joshua Evans, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque, Robert George Cecil Fane, and Edward Holroyd, Esquires, Barristersat-Law, to be Commissioners of the said Court. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Edwards, of Chard, in the county of Somerset, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Parmenas Pearce, of Newton Bushel, in the county of Devon, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederic Fowell, Esq., of Hopton, Suffolk; to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Duke of Cambridge has appointed Captain Stevens to be one of his Royal Highness's Equerries. Mr. Sergeant Russel has been appointed to the office of Chief Justice of Bengal, upon the resignation of Sir C. Grey. The King has appointed Wm. Smith, Esq. in the room of G. Jackson, Esq. to be his Majesty's Commissary Judge, and H. W. Macauley, Esq. in the room of Wm. Smith, Esq. to be his Majesty's Commissioner of Arbitration, to the mixed British and Foreign Commissions established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaties and Conventions between his Majesty and Foreign Powers, for the suppression of illegal Slave Trade. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. H. R. F. Wellesley (sometime attached to his Majesty's Embassies at Vienna and the Hague), to be Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at Stutgard. Henry Cockburn, Esq., Solicitor-General of Scotland, has been installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. The King has appointed Henry Torrens D'Agnilar, Esq., Page of Honour to his Majesty in Ordinary, vacant by the promotion of William Henry Hervey Bathurst, Esq. The Lord Chamberlain has appointed Dr. Cornwallis Hewett, M.D. Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty. 83 Married.]-Hon. C. F. Norton, M.P. third brother of Lord Grantley, to Maria Louisa, eldest daughter of Major-Gen. Sir C. Campbell, K.C.B. Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth. At Brighton, the Hon. C. A. W. Pelham, M.P. eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough, to the Hon. Adelaide Maude, daughter of the Viscount Hawarden. J. E. Parsons, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to Rebecca Anne, relict of the late R. Beatty, M.D. At Bedford, the Rev. T. Brereton, B.C.L. late Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Vicar of Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, to Louisa Milbourn, youngest daughter of James Dyson, Esq. of Bedford. H. Wedgwood, Esq. third son of J. Wedgwood, Esq. of Maer Hall, Staffordshire, to Frances Emma, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir J. Mackintosh, M.P. At St. George's, Hanover Square, by the Rev. Wm. Otter, Principal of King's College, London, Sir J. M. Burgoyne, Bart. Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, of Sutton Park, Bedfordshire, to Mary Harriet, daughter of Colonel G. Langton, M.P. of Newton Park, Derbyshire. E. Hobbouse, Esq. of the Coldstream Guards, son of the late Sir B. Hobhouse, Bart. to the Hon. Hester Charlotte Graves. C. Thomson, Esq. Attorney-General of the Island of St. Kitt's, and eldest son of the late C. Thomson, Esq. Master in Chancery, to Maria, only daughter of N. Byrne, Esq. of Lancaster Place. Died.]-The Right Hon. Mary O'Bryen, Countess of Orkney, Viscountess Kirkwall, and Baroness Deghmont in her own right, at her seat, Beaconsfield, Bucks, aged seventy-five. On his passage from Madras to the Mauritius, Sir G. Ricketts. At Dover, Sir T. Mantell, Knt. many years Agent for the Post-office Packets, and several times Mayor of that town. In his sixty-fourth year, J. Spencer, Esq. of Wheatfield, Oxon, the eldest son of Lord C. Spencer, and cousin of his Crace the Duke of Marlborough. In Bryanston Street, Eliza, wife of Lieut.-GenC. Callander. At Leamington, Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Darnley. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, J. Ellis, Esq. late of the English Bar, and a Magistrate for Cornwall. Aged five years, the Hon. Horatio Nelson, son of Lord Bridport. At Windsor, Mary, widow of the late Sir W. Herschel, K.G.H. aged eighty-two. At Teignmouth, Julia, lady of Capt. R. Harward, R.N. and daughter of Lord Exmouth. In Greenwich Park, Capt. B. Backhouse, formerly of the Royal Welsh Fusileers, aged fortyfive. At Chislechurch, in Kent, in his fifty-eighth year, J. Martin, Esq. of Lombard-street, banker, and M.P. for the borough of Tewkesbury. ferred to the hirer by consent when the licences are unlimited. Fares à la minute are certainly preferable to those by the mile, as every one carries (or may carry) a timemeasurer in his pocket; but the distance by the mile is so difficult to hit exactly, when the hirer is required to go an irregular course, that dispute or extortion most frequently follows. The act also provides that no back-fare is to be demanded, for conveyance to any distance within three miles of the General Post Office. Cholera.-The Central Board of Health has published the following important sanitary recommendations: "Whitehall, Jan. 19, 1832.-The Central Board of Health most earnestly exhort Magistrates, Overseers, and all the authorities of parishes in the North of England, to abstain as much as possible from the removal of paupers, whenever their state of health is attended with suspicious circumstances. They further recommend, that the health of all paupers and vagrants, who may come into any parish, may be most carefully attended to, and if any of them should be afflicted with symptoms of disease, that they may be lodged separately and supplied with medical attendants and every thing necessary. In cases of disease, it will be advisable also, that their bedding and clothes should be placed in an oven or stove, heated to 212 degrees of Fahrenheit, or immersed in boiling water, as the most effectual means of disinfection, &c. By order of the Board, "(Signed) W. MACLEAN, Secretary." The National Debt.-The following has been publshed officially : "The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10 George IV. c. 27, s. 1. that the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof for the year ending the 10th day of October, 1831, by the sum of 27,5371. 18s. 11d. "The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provisions of the said Act, between the 5th day of January, 1832, and the 5th day of April, 1832. "S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General." "National Debt Office, Jan. 10, 1832." Literature and Art.-By a Paper just issued by Mr. Bent, containing Lists of the New Books and principal Engravings published in London during the past year, it appears that the number of New Books is about 1100, exclusive of New Editions, Pamphlets, or Periodicals, being fifty less than in the year 1830. The number of Engravings is ninety-two (including fifty portraits,) eighteen of which are engraved in the line manner, fifty mezzotint, ten chalk, five lithograph, six aquatint, and three etchings. The number of Engravings published in 1830, was 107, (including forty-nine portraits,) viz. twenty-three in line, fifty-seven mezzotint, ten chalk, four lithograph, and thirteen aquatint. British Cottons.-It appears, from recent returns, that the weight of cotton wool imported in the year 1831, amounted to 263,000,000 lbs. 245,000,000 of which were spun; that the weight of sheep's wool imported was 20,000,000lbs., and native grown was about 160,000,000lbs.; that the weight of all kinds of silk imported was 3,000,000lbs.; and that the weight of flax is 120,000,000 lbs.; and hemp imported is 60,000,000 lbs. Thus there is cotton wool used, 245 millions of lbs. ; sheep's wool, 180; silk, 3; flax, 120; hemp, 60 millions; the four last being 663 millions together, and the cotton alone 245 millions. Press in India.-A Parliamentary paper has been published, containing the number of the periodical publications and printingpresses under the licence or sanction of the British Government at the several Presidencies:-Bengal-European publications in 1814, 1; 1820, 5; and 1830, 31; Native publications in 1814, not any; 1820, not any; 1830, 8. Fort St. George,— European, 1814, 5; 1820, 8; 1830, 8; Native, not any. Bombay, European, 1814, 4; 1820, 4; 1830, 12; Native, 1814, not any; 1820, 2; 1830, 4. Bengal,-European printing-presses, 1830, 5; Native printing-presses, 1830, 1. Fort St. George,-European, 1830, 2; Native, not any. Bombay,-European, 1830, 6; Native, 2. Fortifications of the Netherlands.-The following is the return of the total sums contributed by Great Britain for the erection of fortifications in the Netherlands, or towards the defence and incorporation of the Belgic provinces with Holland, in fulfilment of the additional articles of the convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands, dated the 13th of August 1814, showing the total amount contributed by Great Britain under each of the stipulations contained in the first of these articles : Increase in the burials reported this year, 3,692. Public Income and Expenditure. — An account of the public Income and Expenditure for the years 1827, 8, 9, and 30, has been published by authority of Parliament. From this document, which goes fully into the details of the various branches connected with the subject, we have made the following selections: Customs and Excise in 1827 amounted to 39,932,6191. 3s. 8d.; in 1828, to 41,727,779l. 12s. Od.; in 1829, to 40,059,9831. 10s. 5d.; and in 1830, to 39,344,482/. 12s. 8d. The Stamps were in 1827, 7,020,5061. 4s. 01d.; in 1828, 7,317,6091. 7s. 114d.; in 1829, 7,285,976l. 1s. 7d.; and in 1830, 7,248,0831. 14s. 6d. Assessed and Land Taxes in 1827, 5,083,714l. 11s. 04d.; in 1828,5,162,8731. 9s. 84d.; in 1829, 5,206,3921. 1s. 3d.; in 1830, 5,294,870l. 6s. 104d. Post Office in 1827, 2,190,3577. 3s. 10d.; in 1828, 2,207,9981. 11s. 5d.; in 1829, 2,184,6671. 2s. 4d.; in 1830, 2,212,2067. 58. 64d. To these are added Crown Lands and other ordinary revenues and resources, making the grand total of income in 1827, 55,285,6261.16s. 7d. ; in 1828, 57,485,5967. 2s. 74d.; in 1829, 55,824,8021. Os. 11⁄2d. ; in 1830, 54,840,1901. Os. 4ąd. The revenue charges of collection were— In 1827, 3,270,476l. 16s. 8d.; in 1828, 3,225,638.12s. Old.; in 1829. 3,118,1027. 17s. 8d.; in 1830, 3,014,224l. 11s. 44d. ; showing, between 1827 and 1830, a de crease of 256,2511. 5s. 4Ad. Public Debt - In 1827, 29,262,4811. 10s. 11d.; in 1828, 29,189,976l. 12s. 6d.; in 1829, 29,153,6021. 1s. 3d.; in 1830, 28,476,6061. 1s. 7d.; a decrease of 785,8751. 9s. 4ąd. Civil Government-In 1827, 1,621,2391. 4s. 84d.; in 1828, 1,598,0287. 6s. 9d.; in 1829, 1,596,8991. 17s. 4d.; in 1830, 1,578,9671. 19s. Old.; a decrease of 42,2711. 5s. 8d. Justice-In 1827, 1,023,950l. 5s. 01d.; in 1828, 1,000,5921. 18s. 6d.; in 1829, 1,004,598. 18s. 4d.; in 1830, 993,6787. 2s. 24d.; a decrease of 32,2721. 2s. 104d. Diplomatic In 1827, 433,250l. 16s. 11d.; in 1828, 428,0117. 13s. 7d. ; in 1829, 403,5381. 5s. 2d.; in 1830, 375,6251. 2s. 103d.; a decrease of 57,6251. 14s. Ojd. Army-In 1827, 8,194,5067. 19s. 111⁄2d.; in 1828, 8,049,9391. 8s. 34d.; in 1829, 7,769,178l. 12s. 44d.; in 1830, 7,432,2941. 15s. 1d. Ordnance In 1827, 1,649,972.; in 1828, 1,596,1507.; in 1829, 1,728,9087.; in 1830, 1,689,4441. Navy-In 1827, 6,125,850l. Os. 7d.; in 1828, 5,995,9651. 7s. 7d.; in 1829, 5,878,794. 11s. 11d.; in 1830, 5,594,9551. 5s. 8d. Total Forces-In 1827, 15,970,3271. Os. 64d.; in 1828, 15,642,054l. 15s. 10žd. ; in 1829, 15,376,881l. 4s. 34d.; in 1830, 14,716,6947. Os. 94d.; a decrease of 1,253.6321. 19s. 9d. The Grand Total-In 1827, 55,734,5341. 4s. 6d.; in 1828, 54,836,901. 10s. 94d.; in 1829, 54,348,8751. 9s. 8d.; in 1830, 53,011,5331. 3s. 54d.; a decrease of 2,767,8951. 10s. 3d.; from which is to be deducted an increase in other articles of 44,8941. 9s. 2d. showing a total decrease in the national expenditure since 1827 of 2,723,001. 1s. 14d. Imports and Exports. In the year ended 5th January, 1831, the total official value of Imports into the United Kingdom amounted to 46,245,2411. The total official value of Exports, to 69,691,302.; viz. of British and Irish produce and manufactures, 61,140,8651.; of foreign and colonial merchandize, 8,550,4371. Spirits. The quantity of spirits put into bond in the five years ending 5th January, PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. BEDFORDSHIRE. Some highly praiseworthy steps have been taken by the farmers and landlords of the village of Risely, in this county, towards effecting a permanent improvement in the condition of the labouring population of that place. Each farmer underlets a certain number of acres (in fixed proportion to the quantity he may rent or otherwise hold) at the rate per acre which he pays for the whole. Another part of the plan is a club, by which small loans are made for the payment of secd, and repayable out of the sale or produce of the crops. The scheme has hitherto been attended with the most beneficial results. While it has greatly benefited the better sort of labourers, who were the first to avail themselves of the advantages which it offered, it has occasioned vacancies for the employment of many who had hitherto been unemployed, and from their inaptness to work had been considered as the refuse of the parish. Stimulated by the comforts possessed by their neighbours, and by the conviction that industry alone was wanting to place them in the same scale of respectability and comparative prosperity, the idle, the poacher, and those who had been useless to themselves, and burthensome to the parish, are now become valuable members of society. CUMBERLAND. "The Carlisle Journal" gives a most afflicting account of the state of the poor in that city. It says:"Here we have within a fraction of 2000 persons (nearly one-ninth part of the entire population of the city), the greater portion of whom, be it remembered, are in employment-dragging on a miserable existence upon a sum amounting on the average to less than 18. each per week, that is to say, on less than 2d. a-day. This sum includes not only the earnings of the poor people themselves, but the amount of parish relief given to them. In one district there are living 624 individuals, whose average weekly income amounts to less than 10d. each! Out of this pittance they have to pay for house-rent, for coals, candles, and clothing. But what do we say? How can such things be bought with such sums? When some slight deduction is made for such things, how, in the name of God, is life to be preserved by the remainder? To describe the condition in which their dwellings were found far surpasses the powers of our pen. Want of health prevented us from personally visiting these abodes of misery; but persons engaged in the heart-rending task assure us (and we can rely upon their statements) that the appearance and condition of the people were beyond all conceptions which they had formed of the degree of suffering to which humanity may be reduced, in a civilised country, by poverty. Their wretched dwellings were, in many instances, almost entirely destitute of furniture of any kind; others were without fires; and several had not a bed, nor the semblance of a bed, to lie down upon." DEVONSHIRE. has been opened. This improvement is substantially constructed with an elliptic arch, capable of allowing two stage waggons, of the largest size, to pass on it, and is rather more than seventy yards in length. By the completion of this Tunnel, the longest and steepest hill between London and Exeter will be avoided. DURHAM. The Cholera has terminated at Sunderland. A letter from Mr. Stephenson, Secretary of the Board of Health, says-" It is with unfeigned satisfaction I now transmit to you, by the direction of the Board, the enclosed return, and which will convey to the Central Board intelligence of the gratifying fact that these towns are now wholly free from the disease which has so long unhappily prevailed amongst us. I am directed to add, that in consequence of this most favourable change in the state of the public health, the Board have determined to discontinue their daily sittings, and to meet only twice in the week, unless any particular circumstance should arise to require their attendance more frequently." This communication bears date the 8th instant, and is officially addressed to the Conncil Office, Whitehall, 89 6,067 Increase 2,293 8 6 From the report of the Liverpool District Provident Society, it appears that from its commencement in 1830, the receipts, by subscription, &c. were about 18937.; the disbursements in the saine time were only 7977. During this time they relieved 3897 persons with 17,580 quarts of soup, 4320 loaves, and 257 cwt. of coals. The cost of all this relief was 1867. 6s. 94d. Relief is never offered in money, nor at any time without the applicant being visited by the visitor of the district. In the same time the Provident Department has obtained from 5738 depositors 7077. 19s. 5дd.; amount returned, 3071. 1s. 11.; premium on deposits, 97. 11s. 6d.; leaving 4004. 17s. 6d. placed by the Society in the Savings Bank, all of which would most likely have been spent but for the Society. The amount now in the hands of the Society due to depositors is nearly 30007. NORFOLK. At the Norfolk County Sessions, on the 6th of January, the county levy was ordered to be 54001. It was stated that the whole number of commitments to Norwich Castle for the last seven years was as follows:-in 1825, 364; 1826, 514; 1827, 539; 1828, 499; 1829, 592; 1830, 521; and 1831, 669. It is understood that Government has agreed with the Directors of the Norwich and Lowestoft The Tunnel between Charmouth and Axminster Navigation to advance the required loan of 50,0007. |