1823 is only 12,263, being a diminution of more than fourteen per cent. on the aggregate of crime.

April 15. The House of Commons adjourn to the 3d of May, on the motion of Mr. Secretary Canning.

28. Preparations commence for the new buildings at King's College, Cambridge, which is intended to rival the most superb Gothic edifices of Europe.

MAY 5.-A tesselated pavement discovered at Oakley Park, in the county of Gloucester, and various other vestiges of Roman antiquities. The entire skeleton of a large mammoth (i.e. a fossil elephant) dug up at Ilford, in the county of Essex, near Bow.

6. The King of Spain issued a declaration, that he never would consent to the independence of his former colonies, but that he would appeal to a Congress of European Sovereigns.

6. An important treaty concluded between Great Britain and the Netherlands, in relation to their respective possessions in the Indian Seas, was signed in March last, by which we resign certain islands and settlements to the Netherlands.

20. His Majesty held his drawing-room at St. James's-palace, being the first since the repairs, and for ten years past there. It was most numerously attended.

20. Intelligence received of the defeat of the British force at Cape Coast-castle by the Ashantees, and the capture and murder of the governor of Sierra Leone (Sir Charles M'Carthy): out of fourteen officers who were present, only one (Lieutenant Erskine) escaped to tell the tale of woe. The Ashantees were 15,000 strong, and the British not one third of the number.

21. The bill repealing the Spitalfields Acts, carried in the House of Lords by a majority of 61 to 55.

25. Mr. Harris, and a young lady of the name of Stocks, thrown out of a balloon, and the former killed.

JUNE 1.-A tunnel under the Thames commenced on the Surrey side, near Swan-lane, Rotherhithe, and to come out on the Middlesex near King Edward-street, Wapping.

10. A great explosion at the rocket factory of Sir William Congreve at West Ham, Essex, by which several persons lost their lives.

June 10. At the Old Bailey sessions, eight shopmen of Carlile were tried and convicted of selling offensive publications, and sentenced to different terms of imprisonment.

16. A Bill passed both Houses, for restoring to the Heirs Male certain of the Attainted Scotch titles.

18. Lord Holland brought in a Bill to the House of Lords, which eventually passed both Houses, to enable the Duke of Norfolk, as Hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to execute the office without taking the oath of supremacy.

25. The Houses of Parliament prorogued by the King in

person.

JULY 1.-By an Order in Council, two new classes of Petty Officers are to be established on board His Majesty's ships, to be called Masters' Assistants, and Volunteers of the Second Class, to rank after Midshipmen, and to be entitled to a monthly pay of 3. 11s. the former, and the latter 1l. 12s.

14. The metropolis visited by one of the most severe storms of thunder and lightning ever witnessed.

20. Death of the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands, who had come on a visit to this country: they were attacked by measles, and inflammation on the lungs, and died within a few days of each other; their bodies were afterwards embalmed, and conveyed on board the Blonde frigate, Captain Lord Byron, to Owyhee.

AUGUST.-Accounts received of a new war in India with

the Burmese.

Account of the loss of the ship Fame, with the valuable papers of Sir Stamford Raffles on board, relative to Bencoolen and the surrounding states.

10. An Irish priest named Carrol, tried at Wexford for murdering an infant, and proved insane.

10. Hydrophobia dreadfully prevalent in England, and several persons bitten and affected.

10. A new Society of Christians established at Manchester, who profess to abstain entirely from animal food.

SEPT. 16.-Louis the Eighteenth, King of France, departed this life; succeeded by his brother, now Charles the Tenth.

16. Arrival of a Mexican Gazette, with the account of Iturbide's landing, arrest, and execution, for attempting to disturb the tranquillity of the Mexican States.

29. Mr. Sadler, the Aëronaut, killed by falling from his balloon, in a descent near Blackburn.

OCT. 13.-A terrific accident, by the falling in of a cotton factory at Manchester, and upwards of twenty persons killed.

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OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS.

JAN. 12. Joseph Marryatt, Esq. M. P. aged 67.

13. Edward Grainger, Esq, aged 27, Lecturer on Anatomy. 17. William Osgoode, Esq. Chief Justice of Canada.

17. At Florence, the celebrated John King; better known as Jew King, the money-lender.

20. Mrs. Thicknesse, authoress of the School of Fashion, and other works.

28. Chevalier Langles, the celebrated Orientalist.

FEB. 2.-Mr. George Simco, Bookseller, of Air-street, Piccadilly.

8. John Fane, Esq. aged 73, M. P. for Oxfordshire; a descendant, by his mother's side, from Nicholas Rowe, the celebrated Poet Laureate.

19. Sir John Orde, Bart. Admiral of the Red, aged 73.

At Cullon, in the county of Louth, on the 20th ult. in her 87th year, Margaret Viscountess Ferrard, Baroness of Oriel. Her Ladyship was a Peeress in her own right, and is succeeded in her titles by her only son, the Right Hon. Thomas H. Skeffington, now Lord Ferrard.

On the 15th ult. at Brompton, Kent, Thomas Vivian, Esq. aged 77 years, 55 of which he was a purser in the Royal Navy, being the oldest officer of that rank.

On the 23d ult. at Oxted, Lieut.-Col. Francis William Bellis. On the 25th ult. Stephen Smith Ward, Esq. of Plaistow, Essex, in his, 73d year.

On the 26th ult. in Percy-street, James Harvey, M. D. At Bromley, Charlotte, daughter of the late Henry Holland, Esq. of Sloane-place.

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On the 27th ult. at the Surrey Dispensary, Southwark, aged 28, Mr. Benjamin Huggett, late Apothecary to the institution. In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Jane Kemeys Tynte, widow of the late John Kemeys Tynte, Esq. and mother of the Member for Bridgwater, in the 86th year of her age.

On the 27th ult. at Chiswick, the Rev. Dr. Horne, in the 86th year of his age.

On the 23d ult. at Boulogne, in his 80th year, Sir Brooke Boothby, Bart. F. L. S. of Ashbourn-hall, Derby. He is succeeded by his only brother, William Boothby, Esq. of Edwinston, Nottingham.

On the 13th ult. at Glyndbourne, Sussex, in the 95th year of his age, the Rev. Francis Tutté, M. A. one of the Prebendaries of Peterborough.

At Castle Howard, Yorkshire, in the 71st year of her age,

the Right Hon. Margaret Caroline, Countess of Carlisle. Her Ladyship was the second daughter of Granville Leveson Gower, first Marquis of Stafford, and sister of the present Marquis.

At Clonmel, Sir Richard Jones. Out of 23 children, the fruit of his only marriage, he has left 15, and his lady, to mourn his loss.

At Kensington, in the 64th year of her age, Mrs. Buckland, relict of the late T. Buckland, Esq. formerly of Earl's-court, Kensington.

On the 1st inst. in the 94th year of his age, James Chapman, Esq. of St. Paul's, Cray-hill, in the county of Kent.

In his 84th year, John Hicks, Esq. of Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.

On the 31st ult. Mr. George Fordyce Mavor, of Finsburysquare, aged 34.

On the 15th ult. at Monlough, county of Down, Mr. William Gibson, farmer, aged 104 years. His brother died a few years ago, aged 99; and a sister, not long since, at the still more advanced age of 105.

Lately, Sarah Westerman, of Brooks-bank, Wakefield, in her 102d year.

At her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, the Countess of Harrington.

Sir John Simeon, one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery.

At Low Greaves, near Ulverston, lately, Mr. Wm. Sharpe, aged 46. His death was singularly sudden; being in the act of holding a pig by a cord, for the butcher's stroke, which was no sooner inflicted, than he fell down dead, exactly at the same time with the pig!

Aged 73, at Woolwich, the once beautiful and admired actress, Mrs. Hartley. She was a contemporary with Garrick, and, we believe, the only one that remained, excepting Mr. Quick and Mrs. Mattocks.

At his mother's house, in Birmingham, Mr. George Mills, medallist, aged 29. His genius in his profession, will be acknowledged by all admirers of the art who have seen the medals executed by him of the late Mr. President West, Mr. Watt, Admiral Duckworth, and other eminent men. Mr. West pronounced him to be, in his opinion, the first medallist in England.

On the 30th ult. in a fit of apoplexy, David Samuda, Esq. of South-street, in the 58th year of his age.

At Malta, on the 17th ult. Sir Thomas Maitland, by apoplexy. Sir Thomas was a G. C. B. and G. C. He was Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Foot, Governor of Malta, Commander of the Forces in the Mediterranean, and Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. He was the brother of the Earl of Lauderdale.

On the 7th inst. at Hampstead, in his 89th year, John Watts, Esq. who was for many years Deputy Comptroller of the Post Office.

On the 1st inst. at Cheltenham, aged 78, the Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart.

On the 30th ult. at Rochfort, at an advanced age, Gustavus Hume Rochfort, Esq. M. P. for the county of Westmeath.

Lately, at Bayswater, at the advanced age of 85, after being bedridden ten years, Mr. Charles Frederick Baumgarten, formerly Leader of the Band at Covent-garden Theatre for thirty years, and well known to the gallery part of the audience as Nosey, play up, Nosey."

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At Cadogan-place, in the 36th year of her age, Jane, the wife of Alfred Thrale Perkins, Esq.

On the 11th inst. at Walton, the Lady Harriet Bennet, youngest daughter of the Earl of Tankerville.

In Queen-square, in his 70th year, Richard Cheslyn Cresswell, proctor.

Of an apoplectic attack, while attending the West India Meeting, Edward Bullock, Esq. of Upper Bedford-place, in his 52d year.

In Piccadilly, in his 80th year, Sir William Paxton, of Middleton-hall, Caermarthenshire.

At Cavendish-hall, Suffolk, aged 20, Georgiana Lucy Mackworth, youngest daughter of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart.

At Gloucester, Caroline, wife of Alexander Maitland, Esq. Suddenly, in Trinity-square, Daniel Curling, Esq. Secretary to the Customs; and, within a few hours of his decease, his son William, who had been for some time in a state of decline.

On the 16th inst. in Tavistock-place, in the 64th year of his age, Robert Kingston, Esq. of the Stock Exchange.

"In May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane, Mr. John Davy, aged 59, Musical Composer-"Just like Love," "May we ne'er want a Friend," "The Death of the Smuggler," and "The Bay of Biscay," will remain lasting testimonials of his powers.

a pupil of Jackson of Exeter.

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At Sneed-park, near Bristol, in consequence of an accident, Mr. George Webb Hall, in the 59th year of his age.

On the 22d inst. at Stoketon-house, near Saltash, the Hon. Michael De Courcy, Admiral of the Blue. He was the third son of Lord Kinsale, Baron Courcy and Ringrove, and Premier Baron of Ireland.

At Belmont, in the 21st year of her age, Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Prevost, Bart.

In the parish of Ruabon, Dolly Barclay, aged 101 years. She retained her faculties in an astonishing degree of perfection, and ate her food with an excellent appetite.

At Brae-Marr, on the 11th inst. in the 111th year of his age,