The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 70th, under the command of Lieut -Col. White,
have arrived at Newry, head-quarters from Manchester.
Two companies have been detached to Armagh.
The sth Fusiliers have, at present, three companies
detached—one at Omagh, one at Charlemont, and one
at Carrickfergus. The company at Charlemont will, we
presume, shortly rejoin head-quarters; and we under-
stand that the depot stationed at Londonderry will, ere
long, be ins•ructed to supply the detachment for Omagh.
Colonel Rowan, As.istant Quartermaster-General, left
Belfast on Wednesday last, to take the command of the
troops stationed at Newry and Dundalk, during Mr.
O'Connell's sojourn in the latter town.
A company of the 70th has been dispatched from
Newry to Drogheda.
It is likely that the half-yearly inspection of the troops
serving in the Belfast district will commence next week.

(From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)
Colonel Mansell, K. 11., will proceed henco on Monday
morning, to inspect the troops in this district—viz., a
company each of the 24th, 33d, and 72d, at Tipperary,
Cashel, and Thurles ; 4th Dragoon Guards, at Caher ;
33d depot, Clonmel ; 72d depot, Templemore; and 35th
depot, at Nenagh, on his return.
Major Doyle, 24th, has joined head-quarters in this
garrison, from short leave in Dublin.

Major Stoyte, 24th, has leave to the 14th July.
Captain Ward's company, 61st Regiment, at Bandon,
will march for Cork, head-quarters on Monday next.
The 16th Regiment, at Cork, will supply the detach-
ments of the 61st, ordered into garrison from Buttevant,
and out quarters.
Captain O'Halloran, 19th, and lady, have left this to
join head-quarters at Canterbury.
Major Dino'', 18th, or Royal Irish, is ordered to pro-
ceed in command of a draft for Hong-Kong next month.
This veteran, after forty years' service, embarks to re-
join his regiment in a distant and most ungenial clime.
He is the senior officer of the 18th, and was engaged
with the regiment in the hostile operations against China.
Changes of Depots.—Second Battalion Royals, from
Enniskillen ; 7th Fusiliers, from Plymouth to Kinsale ;
19th, from Jersey to Cork ; 48th, from Hull to Cork ;
81st, from Kinsale to Jersey ; 88th, from Glasgow to
Belfast; 89th, from Dublin to Whitehaven ; 90th? from
Cork to Hull.

The 26th Regiment will shortly embark at Liverpool,
fur conveyance to Dublin
The 41st Regiment, at Brecon, will procet d to Bristol,
to embark, per steam-vessel, next month, for Cork.
The 10th Hussar:, at Newbridge, are ordered to
Dublin.
The 11th Hussars will move up to Dublin the first
week in next month from Dundalk, and be quartered at
Island Bridge Barracks.
Major Thomas Power, who was brought into the97th
from half-pay of the 60th Rifles, last week, to sell out,
succeeded to the''command of the 47th Regiment at the
siege of St. Sebastian, for which he wears a gold medal
and clasp, and was present at the passage of the Bidassoa,
the Nivelle, Nive, and Adour rivers, and blockade of the
citadel of Bayonne and sortie.
Preston Barracks have been surrendered, the detach-
ment of the 47th Regiment, stationed there, were re-
moved to Bolton, and the two companies of the 56th at
Bolton are detach( dto Ashton, the new barracks at the
latter post being fit for occupation.
Head-quarters of the 56th move to Bury this week, to
occupy the harm, ka recently built there. The Pompa-
dours have now two companies at Bury, three ditto at
Burnley, under Major Norman • three at Ashton, under
Major Passy; one at Colne, under Captain Smith; and
one at Oldham, under Captain Conran.
Surgeon Battersby, 47th Regiment, who broke his leg
by a fall from his horse at Weedon, having recovered
sufficiently to resume his duties, Assistant Surgeon Law-
son has been detached to Boltcn, to take medical charge
of the detachment there, under Major Gordon.
Captain Johnston, 33d, and family, have arrived in
Dublin on leave of absence, his Grace the Commander-
in- Chief having grintvd him the indulgence of leave to
find his private passage to New Brunswick, receiving the
regulated allowance.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday, a Court was held for the dispatch of public
business. As it was understood that the subject of the
late proceedings in the chapel of Newgate, when the
condemned sermon was preached, in the presence of
Rocker, the murderer, Connor, the person accused of
murder, the other prisoners confined in the gaol, and
several strangers of both sexes, would be brought for-
ward, the Court below the bar was densely thronged.
THE CONDEMNED SERMON.
Alderman and Sheriff SIDNEY, after having presented
the usual Sheriffs' returns of the state of the prisons,
said the Sheriffs thought it right to inform the Court
that some remarks had been made in the House of Peers
on the subject of the admission of the public to hear the
condemned sermon in the chapel of Newgate, and also
with reference to the public execution of the convict
murderer, Rocker. The Sheriff's had deferred makin,,
any reply to these remarks, knowing as they did know
that the Secretary of State had directed an inquiry into
the facts and circumstances attending the matter, and
when the report which would be the result of the in-
quiry should be laid before the Legislature, and fur-
nished to them, the Sheriffs would be ready to enter fully

into the case, in their own defence.
Sir PETER LAURIE observed that he for one could not
but thank the House of Lords for interesting themselves
upon that which he thought was a most nefarious course
of preceeding.
Alderman and Sheriff HUNTER rose to address the
Court, but resumed his seat.
Alderman CHALLIS here interposed, and called upon
Sir Peter Laurie to retract the expression he had made
use of.
Alderman Sheriff SIDNEY observed that he should
have thought Sir Peter Laurie's sense and gentlemanly
conduct would have induced him to recal the expression
to which he had given utterance, since that the Sheriffs
had delayed and deferred a reply to the grave charges
made against their conduct, pending the inquiry set on
foot by the Secretary of State. Sir Peter Laurie had
been a magistrate sufficiently long to know that expa:;te
statements were not always to be relied upon.
Sir PETER LAURIE —I know nothing to recal. I
merely, meant to say that " thank God there is a House of
Lords. '
Sheriff HUNTER said he was not aware that his col-
league had the slightest intention of making any obser-
vations in reference to the proceedings in another place,
but he was prepared to express his opinion as to the pro-
priety of the observations which had been made in the
High Court of Parliament He felt that his colleague
and he were placed in a certain position from not having
been aware of the nature of two orders which were on the
records of the Court, and which were made, the one so
far back as the year 1825, and the other, an exptanation
of the former order, in 1842. It was due to the public,
as well as to themselves, that he should at once express
the reasons why the Sheriffs were not aware of the exist-
ence of any such rules or laws as these orders to which
he referred, being in force. He fuund,however, that in the
books of the Court there was to be seen an order which,
with the permission of the Court, he would now read.
" Court of Aldermen, March 29, 1825.
The Court proceeded in the adjourned consideration
of the report of the Committee in relation to the several
gaols of this city, recommending the public to be ex-
cluded from hearing the condemned sermon at his Ma-
jesty's gaol of Newgate, and the said report, as delivered
in and read in this Court on the 18th day of January
last, was now again read in these words .
"To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and Court
of Aldermen, we whose names are hereunto subscrib-d,
your Committee, in relation to the several gaols of the
City, to whom, on the 30th day of November last, it was
referred to consider whether it may or may not in future
be expedient to exclude the public from the chapel in
Newgate on the Sunday preceding the day on which
any convict or convicts may in future be ordered for
execution, and to report our opinion thereon to this
, Court, do certify that we have taken the same into our
most serious consideration ; and, after due deliberation,
are decidedly of opinion that in future it will be expe-
dient to exclude strangers altogether from the chapel in
Newgate on the Sunday preceding the day on which any
convict or convicts may be ordered for execution, in the
same manner as they .are excluded on other Sundays ;
and we recommend to this Honourable Court to give
the requisite directions accordingly.
" All which we submit. Dated this 18th day o
January, 1825.

" M. WOOD.
" J. J. SMITH.
" A. BROWN.

" Which report was well liked and approved of by
this Court, and ordered to be observed accordingly."
The next order yvas to the following effect :
" Court of Aldermen, June 24th, 1842,
" Resolved and ordered, that the practice of ex-
cluding strangers from the chapel in the gaol of New-
gate, during the performance of Divine worship, on
Sunday, be henceforth adhered to' on every Sunday
previously to the day that may be appointed for the
execution of any convict or convicts, as well as on other
Sundays, conformably to the spirit of a resolution of
this Court, passed on the 29th day of March, 1825,
after consideration of a report from the Committee, in
relation to the several gaols of this City.
" Ordered that Mr. Town-Clerk do deliver a copy of
the foregoing resolution to each of the future Sheriffs
of this City, immediately on their being sworn into
office. " NIEREWETHER."
Their esteemed friend, the Town-Clerk, since this
affair, had addressed to him (Sheriff Hunter) a letter,
stating that he was not aware of the necessity imposed
upon him, of sending copit s of these orders to the
Sheriffs, and conseque qtly they had not been furnished
either to Sheriff Sidney or to himself.—(Hear, hear.)
He assured Sir Peter Laurie that he did not at all flinch
from, but rather approved of the expressions to which
he had given utterance.
Several Voices.--You did not hear them.
Sheriff HUNTER resumed—They might not have been
quite delicate or proper, but he hardly knew what it was
the worthy Alderman had said. Of this, however, he
might rest assured, that the Sheriffs were gratified with
the reference ordered by the Secretary of State for in-
quiry into the whole matter. At present, however, he
only wished that the Sheriffs might stand right with the
Court and the public when they were ignorant of the
existence of any such orders as those which he had felt
it his duty to read. If they had been in possession of
such documents, then he should have been disposed en-
tirely to agree with Sir Peter Laurie. He repeated that
he was not sorry the matter had been made the subject
of reference for inquiry—into that inquiry he would not
at present enter. For the present, he was content to
mention the fact that the Sheriffs were not aware of the
existence of these, or any other orders, regulating the
manner in which they were to proceed on these affecting
—to him, deeply affecting—occasions. He deeply re-
gretted that any circumstance should have arisen to call
for any observations, either in that Court or in any
other, upon the conduct of the Sheriffs.
The TOWN-CLERK hoped the Court would be kind
enough to indulge him with an opportunity of saying a
few words on this subject, which, in substance, he had
already stated to the Prison Inspectors, and to the Gaol
Committee of that Court. The order of 1842 was mad'
on the very day that he was sworn into office, and upot
it he had acted within three or four days afterwards, by
sending copies to Sir William Magnay and Mr. Rogers,
the then sheriffs. In his cffice there was kept a book in
which were entered all matters which were to be done
annually or periodically; but, unfortunately, these orders
had been omitted to be entered, and undoubtedly the
fact was, that copies were not sent either to Aldermen
Musgrove and eloon, the preceding sheriffs, or to Alders
men Hunter and Sidney, the present sheriffs. The
neglect or oversight undoubtedly rested on his (the
Town-Clerk's) office, and for it he was afraid he must
take all the liability which attached to it. He was bound
to say that the Sheriffs had no knowledge of the order
of 1842, as they ought to have had furnished to them.
With respect to the order of 1825, it was not necessary,
by its terms, that it should be communicated to the
Sheriffs ; and on searching the books, he could find to
memorandum to the effect that it had ever been com-
municated to the Sheriffs or to the keeper of the gaol.
Sir P. LAURIE said that the statement just made went
very much to exculpate the Sheriffs. Indeed, he might
add that there existed such a morbid curiosity in the
public, even of the higher class, that he believed it was
scarcely possible for the Sheriffs to withstand the appli-
cations made to them for admission. Some idea of the
extent to which this diseased feeling of curiosity ran
might be formed by a circumstance he would mention.
There was at present in Bethlem Hospital a man who
had been tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity.
(Sir Peter Laurie was here supposed to allude to the case
of Oxford, who fired at her Majesty in the Park.) He
would not mention the man's name, but he pledged his
honour to the fact that a lady of title was anxious to
procure that individual's autograph, and upon being
refused the favour she actually employed a solicitor, who
was :well known, to obtain it for her. He would say
such was a morbid curiosity, the exhibition of which
was very disgraceful to the party. He had been now
twenty years connected with the Corporation, and he
had heard but one condemned sermon, and be never bad
been, and he never would be, a party to torturing a con-
vict under sentence of death to confess to him (Sir Peter
Laurie) his guilt. He never—
The LORD MAYOR interrupted—That is not the

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question before tie Court, and therefore it is irregular
to pursue it.
Sir PETER LAURIE said it might be so, but still it Ivo
a good opportunity for him to remark that these ws
ean
of making a felon notorious ought to be avoided, when
the less that was estid about him the better.
tioTnlli‘e.aLsocalonsellAtoyomaaisiaeida,vheer3w.ifsebwedrebmeaforrkes.thelncotnhveetirsrasst
place be begged to observe, that some of the observe-
does which had been made elsewhere had been calcau:
lated to bring in the whole of the Corporation as liable
re en'
to blame, whereas the body of the Corporation we
tirely innocent of the whole affair. He begged also 0
state that when he held the office of Sheriff, he had Deer
received a copy of the order of 1842, which bad men
read that day. At the same time, it appeared to the
that that the order left the admission of the public on
ed' very
occasion of the condemned sermon being preach
much at the discretion of the Sheriffs for the time beiog,
Forex him'
the words being as well as on other Sundays-
•
self, he would add, he had never been present at aa,ireectis:
lion except upon one occasion, when he was Sheol' e had
That was at the execution of Courvoiseer, whose case i st
excited great interest, and a strong manifestation of t°
ti
morbid curiosity which had been alluded to.Be a,'ht
felt it his duty to attend, fearing that °Tit
be called on to perform a similar duty het
tot
discharged by the gentlemen who were at a
time Sheriffs. Happily, however, he and his colleegh;
went through their shrievalty, and were spared that
pain. At the condemned sermon preached to Courvol
visitor,
he saw °tie of the Prison Inspectors present as the 5
ra° morn'
and the same gentleman was also present on $
ing of execution, having introduced into the P
gentleman, who was said to be a Noble Lord, but
c
tuinly he introduced a friend.—(Hear, hear.) an
Sheriff SIDNEY was sure the Sheriffs were most a be
ous to pay deference to the proper authorities, hilt not
was anxious it should go forth that the Sheriffs (It they
admit that they had committed any act of wht( riff
were ashamed. He could safely assert that .tlO e" -bad
had been better advised by the Under-Sheriff then bad
been his -colleague and himstlf, and everything that
(iv.
been clone was clone after due reflection, and furthereverything
to
Having :add thus much, be hoped all that was htbe
be said upon the matter would be deferred, until
,Yete,
tironer.
report, which no doubt would be supplied to the 'l,ita
cretary of State, they should know what charge
°pa.
made against them. In the meantime, let Puhheene to
nion be suspended on the subject. He defied folcoirg
say on the case as stated, they had done eisa"
wrong. All that had been done he was preParee:'ill
fully to defend. copes 4 the
ioctlea-tee athasot
Alderman HUMPHERY thought that a c°,'e f te-
order which had been brought under theNne
Court, should be sent to the Governor of
had just now informed him (Alderman HunWhr)?orcler
he had never before known of the existence of an, son-
dperomhnibeditinsgertmheona.dmiiisesiown
was
sf sstorraihyg;torsht:arb
;fled °
Sheriff declare publicly that he was still deterime-taing
carry out the opinion he had expressed until sole
like condemnation of the practice should be caecliel'aeoPer
Sheriff SIDNEY—I said I shou'd respset a'' '
authority. A i-uaderi
Alderman HUMPHERY said he perhaps haue.ate-6,0 but
stood the worthy Sheriff. However, Sir J. Grwr a 5eOC
informed him (Alderman Humphery) that he„'iatitieiel
clown one of the prison inspectors to make a full ti, that
into the circumstances, and it was to be prestinuLajo to
when an inquiry was made, a report would he ivratioa•
the Home-office, and sent' down to the C4rP°vith tbe
Then it would be seen how the Inspector dealt $
matter. ,xst, the
bear'
The LORD MAYOR observed, that on SaturdaY:ooers
Committee of Aldermen had directed copies of tat) avatar
read to be sent to the Sheriffs as well as to the "'
of Newgate. the matter dropped.
STATE OF THE CITY POISONS. ittee ea
A report was presented from the Gaol &
oleol,l36dng
the s
Ho übject of a conference with the Govern %0 bei
well pital,relative t o additional accorno3ndet of tbe
afforded there for prisoner' in coneequeriee ther re'
crowded state of the City Gaols,' and also ferarebase
port on the subject of the means taken to 11, 0 wee
ground adjoining Newgate for the erection cu
~n'ti et
Compter. itlaVV- 0
The first report stated, that upon the Ocageldeesallant,
Captain Kincaid, the Superintendent of, -'''' there '''
appeared that there was only aCCOMIROdatiOII. in no
seventy males and thirty females, and tuba sully
quence of the lengthened imprisonment lova% gene
sent to vagrants and others, the .priecin was 'tapas,' -t
kept full. Notice was sent round daily of the n s esighit
cells vacant, in order that the
ascot trot
fl wiebe:,
regulate the commitments there
wt ts further stated that there was 15.inteed the
neither had the Governor tunds to extend arisoltrt;
building and increase the accommodation of tiih;:a
The second report recapitulated the procee sttorse s
with reference to several plans which had been aotioo
for the increase of the present Conspter, IV the ris°l3'
, Fleet P re,
to be made to it on the site of the late I,e report r
Both of these plans had been rejected, and the the rhej
commended the erection of a new CoroPteF - refe" e'
on a site 1) • 0. upon
of Newgate and the Sessions -house,
- ouse, wine that
'on the score of space and situation, and a statiog t •
Warwick-lane. The report conch by t was in'
, is
that ' e for
inio- sures
the Committee were decidedly of
op i. te roes rd
magistrate
,y.
dispensably necessary to adopt in:11130-1'a arto ea
and, in order in
refs'
the accommodation of prisoners ;
out the provisions of the statute recently Pe-
tion to their classification and empleyroerit" that the fee'
Sir P. LAURIE thought it extraot &BATY aotA,-„It:
port did not contain a single syllable as to the,r Os
cost of carrying its recommendation into effee'
was the estimated cost ?
Sheriff HUNTER: W
About 100,0001. do 0e
11 b
Sheriff SIDNEY thought the Court would -i pot -
inquire whether a much more eligible site eoua t°
found out of the city? Oll,l f.
The LORD MAYOR remarked that the betters as'-c
adopt, would be to print the report, and 6x the c°
.e
ation of it for another day. di "
lee eOOO
Sheriff SIDNEY: The subject has been been
mouths under consideration, and nothing lige
a 0
yet. a, 0
The report was then ordered to be printed'
consideration of it was adjourned. of
COMMITMENTS TO BRIDE
rd
otiOP.,
whist he had given notice, to the effect; Court' be pit
Sheriff SIDNEY rose to bring forward,,
thasteleforsaitae
Lion having come to the knowledge of tne, -
eaell hlioet
prisoner committed to the prison of jericlabe fer. 4 to
James Duke, had been liberated contrary to CO' of
of commitment, it is the bounden duty of i; t, vie'', of
inquire fully into the circumstances, Yid! 011°'
remedying such an infringement of the ell° 'ea
ass
the country." .., the e tbe
The LoRD MAYOR inquired whether, "1 esti:Ole
of Sir James Duke, the Sheriff would not P e
't 1'
motion. think it
sheriff SIDNEY replied that he did not
stances Or
eessary to have any delay, as the circutn
0,0,, , of
well known to the Court. By the course 90010 bet
had taken in the matter,. the power floc lied
cod'been of
the magistrates of the City of London t the
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at nought, in a manner calculated to deleft, the enia the
justice. He had taken pains to asset these ;•••"`"eert t°
stance, and he believed them to be aree weeiti
Ist of March, Sir James Duke committed If_ teo eere
two
to, 0,
~
the treadmill, House of Correction— 1"- take"eitlea
days, and cne for seven daya•
by the police-constable, two, named()n Sbteelnsie!ol.:Cire'
son, were received, but the third, Morris,to theJettiril,
admission, and consequently brought huckoa h' rice lbe
room, by police-constable Barnes, 324. sto eke
Sir James Duke gave Barnes strict orderirtare,ts ill;
prisoner again to Bridewell, and leave hirnbe-eed Peicere'
they would receive him or not. Barnes °.: discyorder
structions, and on the following daY it waa" bY fall'
that the prisoner had been disehar;ga-0 .0,5, Boa'
of the Governor, because the Pr's-„d , tar, h"
and on this discovery being lu'acriesneadreos'
stable was dispatched to retake the ~rtalse i'il 01:i
failed in securing him, as lie had givena -fer eeseise I) s
True, the man had only been corimitteu 0 if ' 04,1 s
but the same could have been whichel heee''';',
been committed for an offence for tioo. ,Alt ovit'a
trtiasportao the Pis ,0
have been liable to seven years'
sufficient encroachments bad been made tiPtiol,i,ti'be foc;
of the Court with reference to the RoYa„ that 1:0 pitto
without saying more, he would move heto tptate, a
Petted to the Gaol Committee, to inquirie 0 to eq Ole
of the magistrates of the City of 1-4°n`lta allay' ion a.', to
Bridewell, and to report the instancesaliisebarF'-otien 0
the warrants of commitment have beent'bo (Mead bee
Sir PETER LAURIE said there cool
that it ,littee-
the motion, but he must complain James
'1
brought forward in the absence of Sir u er
.ite.,o
The motion was then agreed to.
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NAVIGATION OF Tag „1 eel' be 0,
Alderman FAREBROTIIER presenteu ay tenrsee o.
tions proposed by the Watermcn's•C°rl Stei';* ere r
in the bye-laws for the regulation
oresals
ed.
navigating the River Thames. The Peitajouru
-ed to the Navigation Committee.

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-------------- e'ler Pe(' of
For fifty years the potato crop vvils, ion coll„,00 0
to be so widely sown in the south of Ireland, st" tont" 011 is
of the season, as in the present year. Ibis iLPO; llesoc°l
husbandry, which used to extend to the Mont.. 50.....-
comp'etely finished before the second wee), °I --7
Journal.
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BIRTHS. of A t.OO
‘ On the sth inst., Lady Charles 'Wellesley, utoto ,I,
On the 22d ult , at Gibraltar, the lady of 1,10
.... ir It bini.
Brown, Royal Regiment, of a daughter. rear ,oe op.° f
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On the let inst., at Kirkconnell Housei,, w,fsri•libor),
Dumfries, the lady of Robert Maxwell ly.l plini, . ,
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On the 3d inst., at High Holborn, 3'll' 081
a son. toil,
an3P— bie,
On the 4th inst., at Albion-terrace, south pro
of Mr. Roller Driver, of a daughtr, still-berriholeas
_ On the sth inst., at Leggatts, the wife °
Esq., of a son. mr, 001,liiieg
On the 3d inst.. at St.iff rhfial;,l4.reeewieboi Cr°°lll
Ellis, of of the Minories, City, Pto Miss poole,
Robert `
of J.
Greenwich. •rieton, AteOn the 3d inst., at St. Mark's, ICeenl tj dnev
bons, Esq., solicitor, Wisbeach, to Eliz3',.°-Vingt°ll.
Taylor, Lsq., of Camberwell New-road, I>e°
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111. ED. , A,.,,u0d tart
On the 2d inst., the Very Rev. ..r•u— jOllO S°
D.D., Dean of Wells, aged 61.
On the sth of January, at Victoria,
Cotton.
BuOrnne3t,,hile
e4ntghaolfAbrlnalyrc.h, at sea, i-, loeel Y.
ant'' . ° °rl
LieUtel2 i eipe,
f oni Sie"s;1114: rim
At sea, on board the brig Royalist, -r -.404, f fi/g
the .6th of March last, Lieutenant Irwin iv _elia, o
tb, ' d,
On the Ist inst., at Brornpton, BliZabeeo. 60001-10$
Warner, Es , of Old BrOMptoll, Middles
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On the 2d inst., at Cloudeslerterraee, .ad of
Islington, Mrs. Mar Evans, aged 69. oulf c°
On the 2d inst.,
It Kingetewn, Caroline,
late Rev. William Agate.

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