Glasgow Courier. — 1850-10-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MARRIED.  At Govan Colliery, on tice.29th-i-n—st"..,.by the Rev. John Guthrie, Peter Mlaren, Esq., merchant. Glasgow, to Mary Watson, third daoghter of James Allan, Esq. At Castlegate, Lanark, on the 28th instant, by the Rev. P. w.y.efine, AS., Mr. Daniel SPlvor, to Janet, only daughter of Andrew Fleming, Esq., Provost of Lanark. At 1, Scotland Street. Edinburgh, on the 29th inst., by the Rev. Atee, Davidson. North Leith, the Rev. John Blaikie, minister of Abbotshall, to Helen, yoangest daughter of the late Mr. David Bea, merchant, Leith. DIED, At rev reame, On the 11th Inst., Mrsiburnside, widow of the sec conninaltam Homicide, minister of Duesedeat At Blickling.hall, Norfolk, on the 27th inst., the Dowager Lady Soffield. At No. 5, Carson Street, May-fair, London, on the 27th me Richt Rev. John Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, in the 734 par of les age. At the Government-house, Charlotte-town, on the 10th inst., aged 50, h;s Excellency Sir Donald Campbell, Bart., of Dunataffsage, Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island. At Plymouth, on the 18th liter., after a short illness, Frederick James Leroux, Esq., Commander, R.N., in the 724 year of his ar• Fell at Kalervi, on the 6th inst., during a charge at the head of his brigade, Brigadier-General Fantle), Wilmot, K.S V.. of the Austrian Service, an old and distinguished Peninsular officer, late Major in her Majesty's Service. A few days ago, at Ballygiblin, his seat in Ireland, Sir William Wriaon Belcher, Bart. The deceased was born on the 31st of Julv.l7Bo, and married, on the 18th of December, 1820, Miss O'Neill, the celebrated tragic actress, by whom (who survives him) he leaves issue three sons and two daughters, his eldest son Henry, born in September, 1826, succeeding to the baronetcy. Lately, at Frankfort Avenue, Rathmines, aged 93, Mr. Jos. Hardy. When twenty years old he invented a machine for doubling sad twisting cotton yarn, for which the Dublin Society 'waded him a premium of twenty guineas. Four years after he Invested a scribbling machine for carding wool, to be worked by horse or water power, for which the same society awarded him eat bondred guineas. He next invented a machine for measuring sad sealing linen, and was in consequence appointed by the Linen Board seals-master for all the linen markets in the county of Derry; but the slightest benefit from this he never derived, as the rebellion of '9B broke out about the time he had all his machines completed, and political opponents having represewed, by memorials to the board, that by giving so much employment to one man, hundreds who then were employed would be thrown out of work, the board changed the seal from the spinning wheel to the harp and crown, thereby rendering his seals useless, merely giving him £lOO by way of resoneratioe for Ms loss. About the year 1810 he demonstrated, by an apparatus attached to one of the boats of the Grand Canal Company, at Portobello, the practicability of propelling vessels is the water by paddle-wheels; but having placed the paddles as the bow of the boat, the action of the backwater was no great that a greater speed than three miles an hour could not be attained. This mode appearing not to answer, without farther experiment deceased broke up the machinery, and allowed others to profit by the ideas he gave on the subject, and to complete on the open sea what heated attempted within the narrow limits of a canal. Be also invented a machine for sawing timber.