Houghton Hall, the magnificent mansion of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, has been purchased with the estate, for 350,000%. by Mr. Watson Taylor, who has also bought Mr. Hope's house in Cavendish-square for 20,000l.

Colonel Coulson, of Blenkinsopp Castle, has lately presented to the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle, a tablet of freestone, in fine preservation, bearing an inscription to Ceres, in irregular Iambic verses. It was found in Caervoran, one of the 18 stations on the line of the wall.

At a late meeting of the most respectable inhabitants of a township in the borough of Leeds, it was determined to offer employment to such of their poor parishioners as could not procure more lu. crative work, in making alterations or improvements in their respective estates, at wages of 9s. per week, and in cases where this sum did not suffice for the support of a family, farther relief would be granted from the poor-rate. Should this method prove only of temporary utility, it is then intended, not only to make immediate public improvements in the highways, but to have a considerable quantity of materials ready for future use. carrying the latter measure into effect, one very considerable difficulty, namely, the serious present expense attending it, was soon removed, by the principal owners of estates liberally offering to advance the money for one, two, or three years, as might be wanted.

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The new Church of Liversedge, erected by the Rev. H. Robertson, has been consecrated by the Archbishop of York. It is a beautiful structure, plain, simple, uniform throughout, and of great symmetry in the arrangements of its parts; and is thought to be the best model of a Gothic church, which has been erected in these parts for a long period of time.

Singular Custom-On Whitsunday, at St. Briaval's, in Gloucestershire, several baskets-full of bread and cheese, cut into small squares of about an inch each, are brought into the Church; and, immediately after divine service is ended, the churchwardens, or some other persons, take them into the galleries, whence their contents are thrown among the congrega. tion, who have a grand scramble for them in the body of the Church. This occasions as great a tumult and uproar as the amusements of a village wake; the inhabitants being always extremely anxious to attend worship on this day. This custom is bolden for the purpose of preserving to the poor of St Briaval's and Hervelsfield, the right of cutting and carrying away wood from 3,000 acres of coppice land, in Hudknolls and the Meend; and for which every housekeeper is assessed 2d. to buy the bread and cheese which are given away,

Saturday, Sept. 28.

At a Common Hall for electing one of the Aldermen of the City of London to fill the situation of Chief Magistrate for the ensuing year; after the name of Mr. Alderman Christopher Smith, next in rotation on the list of Aldermen, had been put up, as well as those of the rest of the Aldermen, the Common Serjeant announced that the choice of the Livery had fallen upon Harvey Christian Combe, and upon the Right Hon. Matthew Wood, to be returned to the Court of Aldermen as fit and proper persons to serve the office. The Sheriffs, Officers, &c. immediately attended the Court of Aldermen to acquaint them with the decision ; when, after they had deliberated, the Recorder announced, that, the choice of the Livery having been communicated to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, they coincided therein; but that Mr. Alderman Christopher Smith had demanded a poll; which the Court was, of course, willing to grant. The poll immediately commenced, and was continued for seven days. And on the 8th of October at a Common Hall, the Common Serjeant declared the numbers to be-for the Lord Mayor, 2656; H. C. Combe, 2446; Christopher Smith, esq. 1055; and that the election of the Livery had fallen upon the Lord Mayor and Alderman Combe, The Aldermen then retired for the purpose of exercising their privilege of choice as to the two gentlemen thus elected by the Livery; and on their re-entrance, the Recorder informed the Livery that their election had fallen upon the present Chief Magistrate, the Right Hon. M. Wood.

Saturday, Oct. 5.

A most melancholy accident took place this morning, between twelve and one o'clock, at the works for the intended Southwark

Southwark Bridge. The men had been working late in the foundation for the Middlesex pier, and had just left off, when a party, about fifteen in number, who were returning to the opposite shore, hailed one of the boats in attendance: a boat came, with two watermen in it, alongside the dam : the whole party, in spite of the watermen's endeavours to prevent them, immediately entered it, and pushed off; but the tide, which was running up very strong, carried it against a barge, when, in the act of clearing themselves from the barge, the boat upset, and precipitated the whole into the stream. police-boat, which was at hand, hastened quickly to their assistance, and succeeded in rescuing two of them from destruction: the two watermen with difficulty escaped by swimming the remainder, including 13, were drowned.

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In common with every Lover of his Country, we cannot but lament the extraordinary distress which the general stagnation of trade has brought upon the labouring part of our population, and upon the manufacturing districts of the kingdom in particular. In several of these districts, some alarming symptoms of disturbance have appeared, which have required all the zeal, promptness, and ability of the Magistrates, to compose. The funds of the Association formed for the purpose of relieving the existing distresses are at present wholly inadequate to this laudable object; and it is incumbent on every one, as he values the well-being of society, not only to contribute, of his abundance, to the common stock, but to exert his utmost abilities in suggesting and providing means for the employment of the labouring poor. Such a generous direction of talent and capital will not only entitle him who exercises it to the gratitude of his Country; but must confer the highest of all gratifications--the applause of his own mind. The following hints by a writer in the Bath Herald cannot be too widely diffused, nor too promptly acted upon:-" British Benevolence, after taking the circuit of the globe, is now called home to her own children. What to give?-How to give?' -are two great questions which concern every Englishman without exception. The taste the habits-the pride--the ambition-the very nature of a British Mechanic is industry; it is useless to attempt to support him in idleness-he must have work. Employment is his natural bias; necessity alone can make him beg. No private bounty-no funds;thousands and tens of thousands, raised to support a Nation in idleness, will vanish like smoke, and leave not a trace behind. The utmost liberality cannot extend beyond a few months. What, then,

is to be done?-for it is evident the calamity cannot stop among the lower classes

it will creep into the middle-it will affect every order. - Can no project of employment be devised?-Are there no capitalists to improve the land ?-Are: there no gentry ft to extend their demesnes? Are there ten successive miles of well-constructed private roads in the Island? Are there not turnpike highways to be widened, levelled, or otherwise improved? How many might be em. ployed in this way to advantage!-Could no improvement be introduced into any new line of inland navigation? How many acres of unprofitable land are now lying waste in every part of the country? -How many millions of trees might be planted, with a certain prospect of clearing 50 per cent. for posterity, and beau tifying the kingdom?-Are our manufacturers' warehouses so overstocked, as not to admit of some further sacrifices on such an emergency ?"-It is gratifying to record a few examples of a truly patriotic spirit, which we hope will be extensively followed. (See pp. 363, 364.)

Wesleyan Methodists. The 73d Annual Conference of the Preachers in the Counexion established by the late Rev. Johu Wesley, was held in London, July 29, 1816, and following days. From the minutes of the Conference, lately published, we copy the following general recapi tulation of the number of Members in the Society, and of the number of Regular Travelling Preachers: In Great Britain....... In Ireland..... In France

At Brussels............................

At Gibraltar ........................... At Sierra Leone....

At the Cape of Good Hope..... In Ceylon

In the West Indies............... Nova Scotia, &c.

Number of Members under the care of the British and Irish Conferences......................

191,680 28,542

35

10

63

129

42

50

18,038 1,824

241,319

At the late Guildford Assizes, the long pending question respecting the liability of the Surrey Chapel to be assessed to thePoor-rates was finally decided: the Court being of opinion that it ought to be rated at 676. the sum produced by it after deducting the steward's salary.

In consequence of some error in the description of the property at the late sale of the Opera House, that concern has been re-soid, and was purchased by Mr. Waters for 70,1501. being 29,150l. more than it produced on the former occasion. The property is held under two leases from the Crown. There are 197 boxes in the whole; of which 68 are private property till July 1825; leaving 129 to be let annually towards the expense and support of the establishment, of which last number 104 are in the four principal tiers, and 25 in the tier adjoining the gallery, The boxes are estimated to be of the following value:-80 in the three lower tiers, of the annual value of 310 guineas each, 26,0407.; 24 in the fourth tier, at 2007. each, 4,8007.; 25 in the gallery tier, 100%. each, 2,500. Hence the annual subscriptions amount to 33,3401; door receipts, per annum, on the average, above 11,000/: total 44,340. The expence of the 60 performances is 29,000; but, suppose an increase to 550l. per night, amounting to 33,000.; then there is an annual surplus of 11,3401. besides the rents arising from benefits given in the theatre, and in the concert-room, rents of selling refreshments, occasional profits upon masquerades, &c.

A French valet, who had been upwards of 35 years in the service of Lord Melbourne, and had realized the sum of 1500%.. lately died; and left his property to be divided between his fellow servants..

Brock, Pelham, and Power, three persons convicted of coining in the case of three poor Irishmen whom they inveigled into the unconscious commission of that crime, and had hoped to sacrifice for the sake of the blood-money, have received sentenee of death. They have thus fallen into the pit which they had dug for others. Their intended victims have been hospitably treated, and sent home.

Application, it is said, will be made to Parliament in the next Session for the accomplishment of the following projects in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis: A new Tontine Patent Iron Bridge, across the Thames from New Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe, to Hanover-street, Rotherhithe; the bridge to be of sufficient height for shipping to pass beneath it. A new fish market on the bank of the Thames, Billingsgate having become insufficient; the new market to be at or near Old Hungerford Market. A new road along the jeft bank of the Thames, from Westminster Abbey to the end of Vauxhall Bridge,

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Report from the Committee on Game Laws. In the present state of Society, there is little probability that the Laws referred to can continue adequate to the object for which they were originally enacted. The commercial prosperity of the country, the immense accumulation of personal property, and the consequent habits of luxury and indulgence, operate as a constant excitement to their infraction, which no Legislative interference that your Committee could recommend appears likely to counIt appears, that under the present system, those possessors of land who fall within the statutable disqualifications, feel little or no interest in the preservation of the game; and that they are less active in repressing the baneful practice of poaching, than if they remained entitled to kill and enjoy the game found upon their own lands. Nor is it unnatural to suppose, that the injury done to the crops in those situations where game is superabundant, inay induce the possessors of land thus circumstanced, rather to encourage than to suppress illegal modes of destroying it. The expediency of the present restraints upon the possessors of land appears further to your Committee extremely problematical. The game is maintained by the produce of the land; and your Committee is not aware of any valid grounds for continuing to withhold from the possessors of land, the enjoyment of that property, which has appeared by the Common Law to belong to them. The present system of Game Laws produces the effect of encouraging its illegal and irregular destruction by poachers, in whom an interest is thereby created to obtain a livelihood by systematic and habitual infractions of the Law. It can hardly be necessary for your Committee to point out the mischievous influence of such a state upon the moral conduct of those who addict themselves to such practices to them may be readily traced many of the irregularities, and most of the crimes, which are prevalent among the lower orders in agricultural districts. Your Committee hesitate to recommend, at this late period of the Session, the introduction of an immediate measure, upon a subject which affects a variety of interests; but they cannot abstain from expressing a sanguine expectation, that by the future adoption of some measure, founded upon the principle recognized, as your Committee conceive, by the Common Law, much of the evils originating in the present system of the Game Laws may be ultimately removed. Upon mature consideration of the premises, your Committee have come to the following opinion: That all Game should be the property of the person upon whose lands such Game should be found. June 26,

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THEATRICAL REGISTER.

New Pieces.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. W. Short, D. D. Prebendary of St. Peter's Westminster. Gazette.

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DRURY LANE THEATRE.

Oct. 19.
Quito Gate; a Melo Drama.

The Watch Word; or, The

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Sept. 21. Lord Exmouth created Viscount Exmouth. Rear-adm. Milne, Knight Commander of the Bath.

Rev. H. T. Ridley, M. A. to a Prebend in Bristol Cathedral.

Rev. Dr. Venables, to a Prebend of the Collegiate Church at Brecon, and Llan Sant Fraid V. co. Radnor.

Hon. and Rev. Frederick Pleydell Bouverie, Netherby Prebend in Salisbury Cathedral, vice Dawkins, dec.

Rev. Tuomas Davies, M. A. Mamble V. co. Hereford,

C. Ekins, Hon. F. W. Aylmer, W. F.
Wise, Hon. A. Maitland, W. Patterson,
and J. Coode, Companions of the Bath.
T. Fonblanque, esq. Consul at Dunkirk.
Sept. 28. F. Lascelles, esq. Consul at
L'Orient; and S. L. Jenkins, esq. at
Bayonne.

Carlton-house, Oct. 2. Rear-adı. Sir David Milne, invested with the Ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Bath.

Whitehall, Oct. 4. Baron Von de Capellen, Vice Admiral of the Fleet of the King of the Netherlands, an Honorary Knight Commander of the Bath.

Carllon-house, Oct. 21. Rt. Hon. Robert Liston, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, vice Sir Robert Gunning, dec.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

Rev. Thomas Lee, D. D. Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the ensuing year.

Rev. Whittington Landon, D. D. Rev. John Cole, D D. Rev. Frodsham Hodson, D. D. and Rev. George William Hall, D.D. Pro-Vice-Chancellors.

Cambridge University Officers for the ensuing year:-The Caput-George Thackery, D. D. of King's College, Divinity; J. W. Geldart, LL. D. of Trinity Hall, Law; Thomas Ingle, M. D. of St. Peter's College, Physic; Joseph Shaw, M. A. of Christ College, Senior Non Regent; Fearon Fallows, M. A. of St. John's College, Senior Regent.-Proctors: Rev. William Okes, Rev. William French. Taxors: Rev. Robert Jefferson, Rev. George Haggitt. Moderators: Rev. J. White, G. Peacock, esq.-Scrutators: Rev. Bewick Bridge, Rev. C. Rushworth.

T. Evance, esq. Recorder of Deal, vice Elwyn, resigned.

W. R. Smith, esq. Collector of the Customs at Southampton.

John Lloyd Jones, esq. Receiver General of the Counties of Montgomery and Radnor.

Rev. David Anderson, Master of the Free Grammar School, Swansea.

-Powell, Bramhope and Weston Perpetual Curacies, co. York, vice Holmes, dec.

Rev. David Williams, M. A. Stipendiary Curate of Overton.

Rev. T. Butt, Kinnersly R. Shropshire. Rev. J. H. Browne, M. A. Archdeacon of Ely.

Rev. L. Booth, Blogen R. Cornwall.

Rev. R. Bedford, Bathford V. with Bathampton annexed, vice Chapman, dec. Rev. J. Parsons, Marden V. Wilts, vice Bedford, resigned.

Rev. C. E. J. Dering, Pluckley R. Kent. Rev. Wm. Knight, St. Michael R. Bristol, vice Wilkins, dec.

Rev. Fountain Elwin, Temple V. Bristol, vice Watson, resigned.

Rev. Thomas Green, M. A. Badby Y. with Newnham, co. Northampton.

Rev. T. Moss, M. A. Walton on the Hill V. co. Lancaster.

Rev. Charles Joseph Belin, B. A. Chaplain to the British Forces at Havre de Grace, and Minister of the English Protestant Church there.

Rev. S. Mence, B. D. Highgate Chapel Readership, vice Bennett, dec. Rev. Joseph Sharpe, Clent V. co. Stafford.

Rev. William Lucas, M. A. Burgh St. Mary and Burgh St. Margaret Consolidated RR. Norfolk.

Rev. John Bull, M. A. Tattingstone R. Suffolk.

Rev. Henry Stephenson Blackburn, M. A. Bradley R. Hants.

Rev. Richard Blackmore, B. C. L. Donhead St. Mary R. Wilts.

Rev. Fulwar William Fowle, B. A. Allington R. Wilts.

Rev. Walter Wilkins, Boughrood V. co. Radnor.

Rev. Morgan Walters, Craswell Perpetual Curacy, Herefordshire.

Rev. Henry Dukinfield, St. Giles V. Reading.

Rev. J. Reeve, one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury, vice Naylor.

Rev. J. Metcalf, B. A. Halstow V. Kent. Rev. William Ainger, M. A. St. Bees Perpetual Curacy, Cumberland.

Rev. R. Steel, Trimingham R. Norfolk. Rev. William Rowlands, Longtown and Llanveino Perpetual Curacies, Hereford. Rev. William Brown, Hutton Pagnell V. co. York.

Rev. John Pitman, jan. Washingfield R. Devon.

Rev. Richard Lewis, Upline R. Devon. Rev. William Canning, M. A. West Heslerton R. co. York.

BIRTHS.

Sept. 1. At Valenciennes, Lady John Keane, a son.-7. In Hertford-street, May-fair, Lady Emily Drummond, a son. -15. At Edinburgh, Lady Pringle of Stitchel, a son.-17. At the Admiralty, Lady Hope, a dau.-18. In Grosvenorsquare, the Countess of Verulam, a son. -At Battle Abbey, Sussex, the lady of Sir Godfrey Webster, bart, a son.-19. In Connaught place, the wife of Robert Wigram, esq. M.P. a dau.-23. At Lyons, Kildare, r. h. Lady Cloncurry, a son.-24. R. h. Lady Mary Trotter, a son and heir. -At Bath, the lady of Sir Alex. Hood, bart, a son and heir.-28. At the Priory, Stanmore, the Countess of Abercorn, a son.-30. At Hallingbury-place, Essex, the wife of J. Archer Houblon, esq. M. P. a son. At Edinburgh, Lady Fergusson,

a son.

Lately. Viscountess Templetown, a son. At the Earl of Mount Cashell, in Stratford-place, r. h. Lady Helena Robinson, a son and heir. The lady of Col. the Hon.G. H. Harris, a son.-At Worthing, the wife of Lieut. col. Taylor, 10th Hussars, a dau. -At his Lordship's seat in Staffordshire, Viscountess Granville, a son.-At Aynhoe, co. Northampton, the wife of W. R. Cart. wright, esq. M. P. a dau.-At Nocton, co. Lincoln, Lady Sarah Robinson, a son.At Edinburgh, the wife of Major-gen. Hope, a son.-At Northlands, Tipperary, the lady of Sir Amyrald Dancer, bart. a son. At Ballinruddy, the lady of the Rt. Hon. the Knight of Kerry, M. P. a son. At Ballyfin, Queen's County, the lady of Sir Henry Coote, a son.-At Madras, Lady Macgregor Murray, a dau.

Oct. 6. At Tyrone House, Dublin, the Marchioness of Waterford, a son.-7. The Princess Royal of Bavaria, a son.-11. In St. James's-square, r. h. Lady Grantham, a dan.

MARRIAGES.

Feb. 13. At Calcutta, James Ewing, esq. Judge and Magistrate at Sylhet, to the eldest daughter of Mr. Alderman Morton, of Wick, near Worcester.

Sept. 4. G. Milner, esq. youngest son of the late Sir Wm. Milner, bart. of Nun Appleton, co. York, to Sarah Georgiana, second dau. of Rev. G. Buckston, of Ashborne, co, Derby,

6. Mr. John Angus Walmsley, son of W. Walmsley, esq. clerk of the Papers of the House of Lords, to Anna Maria, only dau. of the late Lieut.-col. Lambert, of the East India Company's service.

12. Rev. Thomas Heathcote, only son of S. Heathcote, esq. of Shaw-hill, co. Wilts, to Georgiana, eldest dau. of John Fuller, esq. of Neston-Park

13. Lient.-gen. the Hon. John Leslie, to the eldest dau. of the late T. Cuming, esq. Banker, Edinburgh.

14. Lieut. col. Northey, Assistantquartermaster-general, to Laura, dau. of Sir Wm. Paxton, of Middleton-hall, co. Carmarthen.

17. Maj. M. S. Caulfield to Sophia Matilda, dau. of the late M. Archdall, esq. of Dublin.

At Carnsalloch, Mr. Gordon, eldest son of Sir Alexander Gordon, to Miss Hannay, eldest dau, of late Johnston Hannay, esq.

18. Lord Sinclair, to Isabella, youngest dau. of A. Chatto, esq. late of Mainhouse, co. Roxburgh.

G. G. Babington, esq. fourth son of T. Babington, esq. M. P. to Sarah Anne, eldest daughter of John Pearson, esq. of Golden-square.

19. Rev. H. Hanmer, M. A. son of Sir T. Hanmer, bart. of Hanmer and Bettisfield, co. Flint, to Catherine, dau. of Sir T. Whichcote, bart. of Aswarby House, co. Lincoln.

21. Lieut.-gen. Hon. C. Fitzroy, to Mrs. Clavering Savage, of Gloucester-place.

24. Rev. P. Pownall Bastard, third son of the late E. Bastard, esq. of Sharpham, co. Devon, to Mary Anne eldest dau. of Hon. Mr. Justice Park.

25. Lieut. col. Sir Hew Dairymple Ross, of the Royal Artillery, K. C. B. to Miss Graham of Stonehouse, Cumberland.

28. P. F. Shard, esq. M. D. of Warwick, to Mary Magdalen, second dau. of W. Morgan, esq. of Gower-street.

At Paris, at the British Ambassador's, James Drummond, esq. Commissary-general, to Miss C. A. Telfer, great niece of Dr. Tobias Smollett, the Author.

Lately. At Harpenden, Mr. M. Ainger, of the Foundry, Blackfriars, to Mary Anne, dau. of William Humphries, esq.

Oct. 2. Hon. Col. J. Meade, M. P. son of the Countess of Clanwilliam, and uncle to the present Earl, to Uriana Caroline, fourth dau. of Hon. Edw. Ward, of Castle Ward, Down.

3. Jas. Aspinall, esq. son of J. B. Aspinall, esq. of Cleongar Hall, co. Chester, to Harriet, dau. of W. C. Lake, esq. of Birkenhead Priory, co. Chester.

15. Peter Martineau, esq. jun. to Mary Anne, second dau. of the late Francis Ronalds, esq. of Highbury Terrace.

21. Rt. hon. Earl Brooke and Warwick, to Lady Monson.