The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

SILVIO PELLICO.

The Semaphore of Marseilles, of the 18th, delivered an
antouneement of the death of this celebrated poet and
patriot, upon the authenticity of a letter written by
Silvio Pellico's most intimate 'friend, Count Porro ; and
on that account it would have been thought the reality of
the misfortune could not have been doubted : but a sub-
sequent letter from Milan contradicts the statement. The
subjoined notice of this amiable man was prepared for
The Sun, upon- receipt of the first intelligence, but as
the period of Pellico's life, apart from his iinprisonment,.
is but little known, and Miss Sedgwick has .shed a new
lustre on his memory in her recent hook, our readers, we
are sure, will not again behold the face of their " old fa-
miliar friend," with any other sentiment than pleasure.
Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in Piedmont. about
the year 1789, together with a twin-sister, named Rosina.
His mother, a native of Savoy, belonged to the house of
Tournier, and the name of his father was °floret°.
Silvio, in common with not a few men of genius, was
of extremely delicate constitution ; one illness succeeded
another, and during the intervals of these trying attacks,
Pellico was attended by a priest of the name of Mena-
yells, to prepare him for a public school.
Silvio, in his youth, was constantly subject to men-
tal delusions. Sometimes, after having experienced
some sudden - alarm, he was accustomed towards the
close of the day to behold a number of strange fantastic
shapes running all around him ; and even when lights
weretrought they only seemed to-withdraw into the less
luminous parts and corners of the'ronm. At first he
would make a great outcry, and try all means of avoid-
ing this singular species of persecution, and on these oc-
casions the good Lady Nonna was in the habit of consol-
ing him. " And what are.they like, my pretty Silvio ?
What sort of faces had they ?" " Ah," replied the boy,
"they have got long fares (so long), just like the Signora
Nonna's." Perhaps this odd passage of Silvio's life may
be, in some measure, cleared up by observing that the
lady possessed the mysterious book of the Seven Trum-
pets ; and it Is probable that the child's imagination,
being excited by perusing its strange legends, may have
assumed this form of evening dreaming.
About this time Silvio's twin-sister, Rosina, possessed
of great beauty, was on the eve of marriage with a dis-
tant relatve in Lyons, and he accompanied her and his
mother into France. Here for a space of four years he
delivered himself up to his studies, and had almost for-
gotten his native land, when a poem of Foscolo's, called
I Sepokri (the Tombs), appeared in 1806, and was read
by Silvio. His heart gushed out anew in love for his
country. The skies of France no longer wore the same
transparent hue. The deep brilliant blue of Italy alone
haunted his imagination. He grew abstracted, his friends
questioned him ; till at length Silvio confessed that some
poet on the other side the Alps had given him the Mal
du Pays. "Who is he ? What is his name ?" was the
inquiry; "and would he recite them a few of these magic
verses ?" Pellico, in a deep fervent tone, gave an impro-
vised version of almost all the exalted passages. In a
few days afterwards he quitted France for Italy.
At Milan he was called to the Professorship of the
French Language, at a period when it merited the title of
the Athens of Italy, and in the society of Monti and
Foscolo, and celebrated men of various nations, his
poetical genius rapidly matured. Ippolito, Pindemonte,
and Breme, were, among other coatemporaries, objects
of his highest regard. The following is a trait of Pel-
lico's frankness of mind :
Monti one day meeting Pellico at the Cafe Verri,
addressed him on the subject of his quarrel with Foscolo.
" Well," he said, " will you no longer deny Ugo's en-
mity and malice ? Ungrateful as he is I who brought
him into notice ? The Sepoleri would have remained
unknown to this day. He owes his honours to me, and,
by a single word, I could consign them to ignominy and
neglect." "There, dear Monti," replied Silvio, " you
are wrong. You brought this poem into high esteem,
to be sure ; but they, whose eyes you have opened, now
partake the light, and can judge of colours as well as
yourself. Befbre that, indeed, you might have treated
them to the sound of the trumpet, and then have assured
them it was the colour of scarlet ; but this is now out

of your power." Monti struck his forehead.
About a year pubsequcntly a distinguished actress,
with whom Pellico had been much struck when young,
re-appeared at Milan. Pellico and his friend Breme re-
cognised her, and Silvio's phly of Francesca was brought
on the stage. The chief character was allotted to the
now applaudio Marchionni. She played it ; it was re-
peated at Naples, at Florence, upon all the Italian boards,
and with still increasing success.
The Neapolitan Government had fallen, and Silvio's
family returned to Turin ; but Pellico remained alone
at Milan, the guest of Count Briae, and afterwards be-
came the tutor of his son. He next went to reside with
Count Porro, with the same views of directing the edu-
cation of his sons.

On his return to Milan he again resided at the housi

of his friend Count Porro, with whom he lived on terms

of the strictest intimacy, and where he met the most dis-
tinguished men, both foreigners and natives, of his time.
It was there he , became acquainted with Madame tie

Steel and Schlegel, then at the head of the critical
writers of their respective countries. It was there he

first saw Lord Byron, Mr. (now Lord) Brougham, Thor-
waldsen, the sculptor, Davis, with numbers of enlight-
ened travellers of various countries.
Pellico had shortly before translated the " Manfred" of
Byron. The latter xequestecl to see the manuscript of
his drama of Francesca, which had not then publicly
. .

appeared. Two days after his Lordship received it he
himself returned it into Pellico's ]:nods, observing,
" You won't be angry if I have translated it ?" Ile had
in fact translated it into English verse ; and he then
added, " You ought to have translated the Manfred'
into verse." in 1819, LodovicO Breme put forth an
edition of the " Francesca," with the above-mentioned
translation of Byron's "Manfred."
Pellico now contemplated the establishment of a pe-
riodical work, to be entitled "The Conciliator," as an
element for the social and moral improvement of the
people, and a means of reconciling the then dis-
cordant elements of public feeling. Count Porro
devoted all his energies and resources to the under-
taking ; but the oppressive Austiien Government
watched this band of " Conciliators" with a jaundiced
eye, and men who proposed to be the liberators and en-
lighteners of the people were dreadful to their thoughts.
A storm burst upon the heads of the " Conciliators;"
Count Porro was one of the few who had early enough
the precaution to escape, while others were condemned
to expiate the crime of loving their country in dungeons
and on the scaffold. The suppression of this high intel-
lectual school, in which the young and beautiful spirit of
Italy, was once more about to hecoine bright, and glad,
and lofty, was hurriedly effected. Arrests followed ar •
rests, and Austria grasped her victims. Pellico was about
to visit his friend Pietro Maroncelli, and inquired fur him
at his house. The answer was, he was arrested. Him-
self had scarcely entered the City of Milan before some
one advancing close to him whispered in his car, " The
police re after you !" " They know where I ant to be
found," was the answer ; " I am goinesto wait fur them."
He went, and they were in readiness for him. His pa-
pers, poems, tragedies, correspondence, were all seized,
and he was compelled to follow his inquisitors to the po.
lien prisons of Santa Margherita.
The account of " My Ten Years Imprisonment" by
Pellico is, indeed, a long detail of misery; exquisite for
its lovely facts and language, and soul-touching from its
unaffected pathos. The main charm of this hook of
Pellico lies in the singular calmness and placid beauty of
its tone. It is, says an elegant critic, one long tragic
monologue, and the scene is a succession of prisons.
And yet it presents a picture so interesting of a refined
and amiable mind labouring against the most trying of
earthly calamities—long and continued solitary impri-
sonment ; it exhibits him under so many touching as-
pects of weakness or strength—of patient mental exer-
tion, or the weariness and sickness of hope delayed--it is
brightened by. so many interesting little episodes—
glimpses of existence, as it were, seen through prison
bars ; it is instinct throughout, with so kindly a spirit
towards mankind, so anxious a desire to discover good
even in evil, that it possesses the history of a romance
combined with the truth of reality. It is at once an his-
torical doenment and a psychological picture, drawn, as
the author himself says, from no motive of personal
vanity, but as a legacy to those who may be placed under
circumstances as trying.
The circumstances of Pellico's imprisonment, which we
have above but cursorily alluded to, are so well known
to the world at large, that it would be but vain reitera-
tion on our part to again recount them; suffice it that we
refer to the long-hoped for period of his release.
The Ist of August, 1830, was a. Sunday. Pellico had
returned from mass, and was preparing with his fellow-
prisoners his table for a sorry meal, when Wegrath, the
Superintendent, entered, and conducted him to the Di-
rector of Police. This personage, taking a paper from
his pocket, said, in courteous tone, " Gentlemen, I have
the pleasure, the honour, of announcing to you that his
Majesty the Emperor has had the kindness to grant
you —. Here he stopped, and Pellico expected some
diminution of punishment, but he added—your liberty.
Maroncelli and Pellico left their dungeons. They
' crossed through Styria and Carinthia. As the happy
evening of the lith of September dawned, Pellico had
reached Turin.
Who can attempt to describe the transport and conso-
lation his heart received when Pellico again saw and em-
braced father, mother, and brothers. He was once again
in the bosom of home, and blessed Providence that he
bad quenched all his past sorrows in the bounding trans-
ports of his present happiness.
The latest tidings of Silvio Pellico come to us through
Miss •Sedgwick's " Letters from Abroad to Kindred at
Home," in which, among the other iliustri she met with
in her journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy,
was the amiable object of our present memoir. " We
have seen something here," says she, " that will proba-
bly interest you more than all the pictures in Italy—Sil-
vio Pellico. He lives near Turin, as librarian to a cer-
tain Marchese. We wrote him a note, and asked the
privilege of paying our respects to him, on the ground of
being able to give him news of his friends, and our dear
friends, the exiles who were his companions at Spielberg.
He came imawdiately to us. He is of low stature, and
slightly made : sort of etching of a man, with delicate
and symmetrical features ; enongh body to gravitate
and keep the spirit from its natural upward flight—a
more shadowy _Dr. Charming ! His manners have a
sweetness. gentleness, and low tone, that correspond well
with his spiritual appearance. He was gratified with
our good tidings of his friends, and much interested with
our account of his godchild, Maroneelli's little
,Silvia.
His parents have died within a year or two.
have been very sorry to hear some of his countrymen
speak alisanstfully of Pellico, and express an opinion—
a reluctant one--that he had sunken into willing subjecs
non to political despotism end priestly craft. It is even
said that he has joined the order of Jesuits, I do not
believe this, nor have I heard any evidence adduced in
support of it, that tends to invalidate the proof of the
incorruptibility of Pellico's soul contained in Le Mie
Prigioni (My Imprisonments). He is a saint that cannot
fall from grace. There seems to me nothing in his pre-
sent unqualified submission incompatible with his former
history and professions. His phase of the Christian cha-
racter has always been that of sufferance. He is the,

wntle Melauet.hon, not the bold aid valiant Luther; the
loving John, not the fearb.,;s
When to the inspiration of the poet and the glory of
his son:, there is added the fervour of the patriot and
his consequent nobility of soul, it may jusly be appre-
hended that the harmonious combination of the two,
will prodt•_;e a character which shall challei.ge the ad-
miration, not only of contemporary, but after-times.
This it was that Byron aspired to be, but Missolonghi
quenched in death the high deires of his soul. This
Pellico.became, by the bias of circumstances, around him.
But, above all, it is beautiful to observe in the pages of
this good man's life, how both the flame of the poet and
the magnanimity of the patriot were softened down into
a lovely mildness---a Christianized beauty, by the amiable
religion which, supreme in Pellico's soul, swayed all
his other thoughts and passions. The amaranths of the
poet may be his, and his, too, the laurels of the patriot,
but assuredly his brow, above all, will be ennobled with
the crown .of the patient Christian martyr.

FEVER AT MANCHESTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I am somewhat surprised at the statement made
by the Right lion. Sir R. Peel relative to the statistical
returns given to him as regards the number of patients
admitted into the fever wards of the Manchester Fever
Hospital. In the years 1837 and 1838 I acted as clinical
clerk to Dr. Bandsley, and during that time I find, on
referring to my note-book, that I visited in the neigh-
bourhood of Deans Gate, from November, 1837, to
April, 1838, 1,085 persons, all of whom were labouring
under typhoid fever. The result was lamentable in the
extreme, inasmuch as one in three died, and this great
mortality was solely attributable to the large numbers
that occupied small dwellings, together with the scanty
pittance that they had been compelled (according to their
own statements) to subsist upon for some time previous
to the attack. I have, during the above time, visited no
less than ten persons in one cellar, all labouring under
the worst form of typhoid fever. They had no cover-
ing, nor yet had they a bed whereon to lie, except some
kind neighbour sent them a pair of sheets and a bundle
of straw, which to them answered every purpose of a
bed. This is one case out of many that I could relate,
where numbers of persons were huddled together; during
my attendance in that neighbourhood. The squalid
wretchedness and poverty, which was the chief charac-
teristic of every house I visited, told its own tale. I hope,
Mr. Editor, you will give publicity to the above state-
ments, and when the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of
her Majesty's Government again gives a statistical ac-
count of patients admitted, he will likewise state the num-
ber of out-patients that could not be received, within the
walls of a fever hospital. '
I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
T. 11. WARDLEWORTH, Surge on.
Rochdale, Oct. 5, 1841.

THE POOR FELLOW DEPRIVED

OF SIGHT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Six--I have often joined in public reprobation of the
inequality of punishment under our laws, especially as
regards cases of assault, often producing miserable and
cruel rezult.. I never saw a stronger instance of this
than the one reported in your paper of this evening. A
miscreant ruffian of the name of Foley, without the
slightest provocaion, struck out the only remaining eye
of a poor man, named John Hays, who bad served his
King, and lost the other in that service. The Magis-
trate first recommends him to make some " compeusa-
tion' " which the injured man truly says money cannot
make. And here I will stop to observe, teat had this
been a rich mm, one of the Marquis of Waterford spe-
cies, be would have thrown down his 51., the value of
which to him would be abcut what a penny would be
to a poor man, and then have welked away with non•
chalance, at liberty to commit, and buy off, other
offences. Next. the Magistrate commits him for one
month's hard labour. The fault here is, perhaps, more
that of the law than the Magistrate. Now, Sir, I ear-
nestly contend, and appeal to just men of every party,
that in all such cases the punishment should be double,
or a fine, as compensation to the.party, lavied on the
goods of the criminal, according to his station in life,
from 5/. to 5,0001., and much more. LA no one start
or smile ; for this, and nothing less than this, is perfect
reascn and justice. If the compensation be excessive
for the injured party, let a reasonable portion go to
charitable purposes ; aad next, IA there be a personal
punishment, according to the aggravation and enormity
of the offence. It I mistake not, in several countries
e Lich we are accustomed to term less free than outs,
rich, and even titled offenders, do not get off with fines
alone. In the case before us the injury is scarcely a
step below murder : an honest and inoffensive man is
made poor and unhappy for life. The case ought to
have been sent to the Sessions, and the expense and
trouble of the prosecution taken up by a paternal Ex-
ecutive. A month truly, for maiming a fellow-sub-
ject in this scandalous manner! Seven years' hard
labour would not have been an hour too much. The
case of this poor blinded mall appears to me singularly
pitiable ; and I sincerely hope public sympathy will be
directed to it. He appears to be at present in the
Middlesex Hospital.— I am, yours respectfully,

Oct. 4, 1841. CANTABRIGIENSIS.
P.S.—I am trot a person to approve of the " Gailey
SlaAta " system, but I really do think that such a let-
low as this would be appropriately placed, if working
under some brand of public observation, and such a
punisbmcct is exact!), what would " tell."

THE WESLE YANS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

beg leave to call your attention, and, through
your valuable and well-conducted paper, that of the
public, to the tyrannical and unjustifiable interference
of the heads of the Wesleyan Methodists over their
flocks. We may talk as we please
,of the cruelty prac-
tised by the Church of Rome over her subjects, but
I very much doubt, if, in the time when her power was
almost universal, she ever practised so much tyranny
and cruelty over her subjects, as that now practised by
the heads of the Wesleyan Methodists, through their
modern inquisition—the Conference. They have pro-
hibited their ministers from attending to, or advocating,
the cause of teetotalism, out of their own circuit. And
they cannot do so without leave, of whom? I suppose
ofJabez Bunting, or some other of their modern Popes.
Yet, these are the men who profess to have so much
anxiety for the welfare of their flocks ; who pretend to
take so much trouble to save souls. And not only is
their conduct most cruel in this respect, but in others
equally so, which you will find by looking at the rules
which they passed at their last Conference. What can
be more cruel than their conduct, with respect to the
non-attend4nee of their ministers at the la'e Manchester
Conference, to advocate the cause of the half-starving
of their flocks ? If they do not very soon alter their
conduct, methinks that the people will very soon run
away from the Conference, and, in a few years, there
will not be lett even the name of :Methodist.
VERITAS.

LOVE, LA W, AND RE FRII3IITLON
A somewl at curious story is at present affording a
considerable land for talk to the gossips of a neighbour-
ing comma; ity. The principal figurantes in the tale are
a converted Jew, an unmarried lady of independent
fortuce, and a minister of the Etablished Church, who
has on more than one occasion attracted a large share
of the public attention. The Jew having abandoned
the faith of his fathers, and be.mene a convert to
Christianity, paid a visit, among other places, to a
town in the vicinity of this city, where he received a
ready passport to society through the instrumentality of
several individuals, who gladly hailed the new prose-
lyte ; and, amongst others, it is alleged that he was
honoured with the patronage of the Reverend Genfe -
man to whom we have alluded. Prayer•meetings
tea-drinkings, and other gatherings of a similar
description, which lilies of a certain turn
of mind love to frequent, followed as a ne-
cessary consequence ; and the stranger was at length
fortunate enough in securing the affections of one of
the ladies to whom he had been introduced, and who,
we understand, possesses a highly comfortable and un-
controlled competency. Letters were interchanged be-
tween the parties binding them both to tie the indis-
soluble knot ; and if the day was not actual y fixed, at
least certain necessary preliminary preparations were in
progress, when the friends of the ladv, becoming
alarmed at the aspect of matters, stepped in for the
purpose of prevailing upon her to abandon the match.
The clergyman, who had previously, it is sail, aided in
bringing the Jew into notice, now threw his powerful
weight into the opposite scale, and the lady was in-
duced to abandon her matrimonial intentions. A friend
of the parties was employed to break the altered
posture of affairs to the convert, with pea ers to
arrange a suitable solatium for his wounded
feelings. Some difficulty was at first cxperi-
enced, the Jew protesting that it was not "de
monish, but de lady" that held the first place in
his affections, but. he ultimat ply yielded to the powerful
arguments that were placed before him, and agreed to
give up his claims, upon consideration of a certain sum
being forthcoming. So terminated the nffair, in So far
as the lady was concerned ; but the m.. nister has to le
extricated from the troublesome consequences ; for find-
ing that the delightful intercourse of society was no
longer so freely thrown open to him, and believing that
certain sayings of the clergyman were one cause of the
estrangement, the Jew laid his grievlnee.s before a legal
gentleman, who advised him to demand redress within
the precints of ti.e Court of Session. Actiag on the
advice thus tendered, an action for alleged defamation
of character has been raised against the minister, and a
summons, concluding for 5,0001. damages, was recently
served upon the ROB. Gentlemw, on his return from a
very interesting tour in which he had been engspel
The tale is instructive in many points of view, but upon
these it is unnecessary to dilate, the simple narrative
being sufficient for every us.eful purpose.—Glas,gow
Argus.

In the Toulon port news we fitAl that the Geno-
roux, of the line, was making preparations for putting
to sea. Several steam-boats had received orders to take
in coal, and be ready to depart at a moment's notice.
The hospital steamer Cerbere has started for Algiers,
with twelve officers and other passengers, and ninety
soldiers of different regiments. The Phaeton steamer,
sent to Tunis with despatches for Commandant Leray,
was hourly expected back.

EVENING SUN

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BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MAR'
IrfIAGES.
The " Third Report of the Registrar-General of
Births, Death, and Marriages" has just been published,
of which the h Hawing is an abstract.
The following table will show the numbers registeced
in the year ending Jut e 30, 1840, compare) with those
of the preceding years :-
1639-40. 1838-39. 1837.331
Births.... 501,589 480,540 399,7162
Deaths ... 830 101 '331,007 355,956
Marriages 124,329 111,083 111,481
Thus showing an increase in the number of birthg
gistered in the year ending June 30, 1840, over
thnsl
in 1838-39 of 21,049 ; over those in 1837-38, L°
101,877 ; in the number of deaths registered in
year ending June 30, 1840, over those in 1838 39, °
19,094 ; over those in 1837.38, of 14,145 ; in the nniv
ber of marriages registered in the year ending June :39'
1840, over those in 1838-39, of 3,246 ; over those I°
1837-38, of 12,848.
The increase in the number of registered birtiof,..l
said to be the result of the successful ()Petition ell
new law. The increase in the number of re;is ere
births has not been confined to a few loca'itics, but hAt
been generally diffused.
During the last three years the proportion of °it;
and female children has been nearly the same.
appears, from the Report, to have been an apearerit,:
creese in the number of deaths compared with the
preceding years. The first year's registration did no
comprise the deaths of the whole year, which, iecluding
those registered subsequently, amounted to 333,66
The real increase, therefore, over the -registered death,
which occurred in the year 1837-8 is 11,441. In
sidering this subject, we should recellec; that the
lation of England and Wales Ls increased free'
to 1831 at the rate of 16 per cent. ; and it itho,
assumed (as is prole.ble) that this rate of incre.ssa tbd
continued to the present time, the population i° tl
years 1838-9 and 1839-40 will probably have inef,e69.
to the amount of from 220,000 to 240,000 aonua"l,* of
The proportion of male and female dla eas in e""
the three years has been nearly the same.
s. Ft rn ales;
Year ending June 30,b, 1838... 170,965- 164,99 i
Ditto 5
ditto 1839... 169,112 .--%89/0
Diittftoo. ditto 1840... 177,929 172,..,,11,
More than half of the excess over the deaths of 183 t"
and more than three-fourths of the excess over thoeL
1837.8, consist of deaths• of children under flee yea''
of age. This increase in the rate of mortality, vil.6
happy to say, has not been general throng°„"s
the kingdom. but has been confined to a few unbealtl4
.lecalities. From a tabular statement Lynched to t.be,
report it appears that there has been a progressii!.
t
decrease of mortality from 1837-8 in the Nit:trope lo
and in Devonshire ; and of progressive increase from
1837-8 in tee counties of Derby, Leicester, NortbaroPi
ton, Nottingham, Rutland, and the northern parts d,
Lincolnshire ; tl.e counties of Chester, Salop, Sten'tit
except the mining ;Jai t of the two latter ; Lancaster, sell
of Morecombe-buy, etc: pt Liverpool and Manche=ter:
the West !Wing of Yorkshire, except the northers;
parts thereof; and Leeds; the City, Ainstv, and 11,1
Riding of York, Monmouthshire, Threforeshire, a(.I0
Wa.!s. The greatest increase of mortality has be Sharer
the following cout,t.es :—Lancashire, Nottingbanhite'
rei
West Riding of Y,rkshire, Leiceitershire, Ch"'-e
Gloucestershire, Noi thumb/ rhnd, Durham, Derbysh.ri;
and North Wales, the combined increase of `vhf
of
alone amounts to 15,2:31 out of the total increase "-
19,097. It will be noticed that this increase "„1
taiity has occurred among the manufacturing lorilit7lo
-°e
the population. A great number of deaths it
districts is to be traced to the prevalence of ePidenie
e
diseases, particularly typhus and scarlet feverl siog
besides these, other circumstances to which those 'n,Cee,
in the manufacturing parts of England are esP"..ele
which will alway; he operating prejudicially to hen
and cause an increase in the rate of. mortalitY• tality
The Report shows a gre t variation inth;e
in dif erent districts, especially in childhO6d .0,
age. The deaths of' children under one }ear *I 11;f,
constituting a fourth portion of the wholl e'rt.,', in
appear to have been comparatit ely most nuteeree
the mining districts of Staffordshire and Shropsh'rco.
south of Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire, f0133c •hire
bridgeshire ; the manufacttiring parts of 11-4;- Leeds,
and Yorkshire ; Manchester, Liverpoo!, an l 0
3
&c. The proportion of deaths at ad need nge-he
been greatest in Devonshire, Dorset.%ll"re.
Cornwall, in the counties north of Yu.r 1,191: ire, neLOll,
ha
Norfolk and Suffolk. It has been ait in L'verrd.
Manchester, Mrtningliarre_ Leeds, and the m.niLig

tries of Staffordshiie and Shropshire.
In the number of marriages there has bees
crease to the amount of 12,848, as compared 7116
those registered in 1837-8, and an increase of 91
over thel:e of the year 1838-9. The number 0311110/h
under the age of 21 was as folows 6, per
women 17,909, being in proporenc to the whole o°le if,
married 4.90 per cent. and 14.40 per ce.t. respe°ll"o:o
This proportion is in a slight degree high( r the" 'nod
}receding year, when the numbers were 5,628 We"
16,414 women, and the proportions 4.64 and 13.5`",,e
It appears frora the Report that in 13 Englitth,,,,i,des,
ties, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in
not
more than 40 per cent. of the men married .coo 4 ie
write their names ; and that in 19 English couotie6: e
the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in Wa'es. the 1-,nt:,
existed ested with respect to mo e than half the voe Yin
It appears from the ahstr act of marriages conttlio,
the report, that in the whole of Eiglan and " flee,
out of 124,329 couples, their were 4,1,812 Ince' poi
62,523 women, who it is presumed either could
write, or wrote very imperfectly. • k Or
With reference to the nges.of those married, it OPT
pears that in the years 1838-9 the average age eir,- 25
riages was, for men, about 27 years ; for womeicsitee
mayears and a few months. It now appears, fro
lysis of the recorded ages in 10,019 marriages far
occurred in June 30, 1840, that the average sib
men is 274 years, for women 25.5 years- ,
The places registered during 1840 for th6-,o'et'''ogi
tion of marriages uaconnected with the Chureb °' ore
land amount to 188 The utaber registered the
ceding }car was 246.

that
COURT of OP SESSION.—We unders.ta?clwth“i-00:
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been accepted ; and t'►at the usual letter on 11`; ;dent'
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has been received in towne—Ediibr i id prtiser,`"- hip
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Dishes, with silver handles and edges, and silver s
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if, 0
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C. J. DENT begs to acquaint his Frkdiltrivtile
the Public that ho has just had the honour of
subjoined letter from the Admiralty
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" Admiralty 29th September's Bof lier
11 Sir—The annual trial of elironomettrs for the !1s o°'
Majesty's Government having now terminated, I alo rioprel
mended by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty otho
you that their Lordships hare directed me to purchasei t the°
lowing chronometers at the various prices specified fig
respectively, :
Dent, No. 1,571 55 guineas
Dent, No. 1,606... ..... . 4O guineas
Dent, No. 5,621 (pocket) 3O guineas
‘‘Their Lordships having been pleased, in order to 11/t1; /1
estl
superior performance of 1,571, to assign to it a prefer
enclosed pi ice to that usually given.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient savant,:
F. BEA uFoRT, Hydro;;
To Mr. Dent, 'Chronometer Maker, 82, Strand. .ectol
Out of 80 Chronometers, by various Makers, *till of tocl
the late trial by order of their Lordships, chVtion, stii,
above three, with two selected for the Niger I?.sPe7le hos t,),0
others, enables Mr. Dent tu affirm that he believes for
year supplied their Lei dships with mere Chronoreettolthetsi "
use of the Royal Navy than have been furnished
~s 5
any other Maker. t it .7 f
It affords Mr. Dent alditional leisure to state
_"-aaool4,
to their Lordships' high recommendation 1:e owestll,,oi,,er "'-
having made a Cold Chronometer, presented to the to
pedition by his Royal highness Prince Albeit. atelle4:
Dent's Lectures on Chronometers, Clucks, and "_;,eoteo
be obtained at 82, Strand, price one shilling, bat In"
customers gratuitously. Guineas
Present price of Two-day Chronometers, 40
d'
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square, Mrs. Hedgrnan of a son.
DIED r'agir s°
On ti e 6th inst., at Birmingham, Amelia, el'lr'ft
of Francis Burgess, Esq., Barrister-at-law, and Chit:
sioner of Police far that. horoui'h 01
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London: Printed and Published by MURDO straee'
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the County of Middlesex, Thursday, OcrtOber 7.