MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married.]-AtSt. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, James King Simpkinson, Esq., to Mary Cochrane, fourth daughter of the late K. F. Mackenzie, Esq., of Montague-street, Portmansquare, and formerly his Majesty's AttorneyGeneral at the Island of Grenada, At Epsom, Henry William Richard Westgarth Halsey, Esq., of Henley Park, Surrey, to Caroline, second daughter of Edw. Whitmore, Esq., of Lombard-street. Captain Arthur Lyttleton M'Leod, to Mary, third daughter of the late John Bradley, Esq., of Colborne-hill, in the county of Stafford. At St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet, by the Rev. George Masters, D.D., after having been previously married according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Michael Power, jun., Esq., of Gibraltar, to Emily Louisa, youngest daughter of Peter Power, Esq., of the former place. At St. George's, Hanover-square, William Gilbertson, Esq., of Hobert-place, Eatonsquare, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Francis Bramah, Esq., of Belgrave-house, Pimlico. Died.]-At Teignmouth, Devonshire, aged 50, the Hon. Emma Mary, wife of Admiral Sir Lawrence William Halsted, K.C.B., and eldest daughter of the late Adm. Viscount Exmouth. Suddenly, of apoplexy, at Florence, when dancing at a court ball of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes, of the Coldstream Guards, son of General Lord Forbes. In his 74th year, the Rev. C. B. Hawkins, B.C.L., upwards of forty years Vicar of Lewknor, Oxon. At Hinton Admiral, Hants, Sir George Ivison Tapps, Bart., in his 83d year. Commander Sir Peter Parker, Bart, R.N. aged 55. The Rev. T. R. Taylor, Classical Tutor of Airedale College. At Bath, in his 88th year, General Sir Henry Johnson, Bart., G.C.B., Colonel of the 5th Foot, and Governor of Ross Castle. In his 73rd year, at Windmill-hill, Susser, Edward Jeremiah Curteis, Esq, Magistrate, and Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Sussex and Kent, and for many years M.P. for the former county. In Lansdowne-crescent, Bath, Lient-General Sir William Cockburn, Bart., of Cockburn and Ryslaw, (N.B.) in his 67th year. In Kemp Town, Brighton, William Tennant, Esq. At Stonehouse, aged 90, Monsieur Royon, M.A., formerly Professor of Belles Lettres at Paris. In Milton-street, Dorset-square, in his 60th year, Vincent D'Oliveira, Esq., of the Island of Madeira, and late of Lisbon. At Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lady Ussher, wife of Captain Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K.C.B. In Store-street, in his 73rd year, Alexander Pope, Esq., late of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden and Drury Lane. On the 14th ult., in Wynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, Mr. S. W. Sustenance, formerly of Piccadilly, bookseller, in the 34th year of his age. PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. The Thames Tunnel.-A meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the Thames Tunnel Company has been held to receive the report of the Directors. The Chairman said that they met there under circumstances different from what they had done for the last seven years. The late Government had consented to provide them with a sum of money which had been considered necessary for the completion of the work, which would be done in the cheapest possible manner. The money had been advanced in the shape of Exchequer Bills, the interest upon which was available to the benefit of the Company. There was now no doubt of the final success of this great national undertaking, which had engaged attention in all parts of the world. Mr. Burkitt read the report of the Directors, which stated that for the last six years they had used their exertions to fulfil the duty imposed on them, and they had, at length, succeeded under the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury, who, by Act of Parliament, were provided with money on account of the Improvement of Public Works, in obtaining a loan from the Commissioners for issuing Exchequer Bills, and which was considered sufficient to complete the magnificent work. In order to obtain the required assistance, Lord Morpeth and Sir Harry Inglis, with a deputation, waited on Lord Althorp, to whom a statement was given that 246,000/ would be as much as they should want, and which was readily acceded to. Under the advice of their solicitor, 30,0007. on the 5th December last, was placed in the Bank of England. At no distant period, therefore, the Tunnel would be finished. The Report concluded by stating that not only the late, but the present Government, have afforded every facility for the promotion of the work, while the Duke of Wellington and Lord Morpeth have manifested the greatest interest throughout its progress.-The report of Mr. Brunell was next read, which expressed the fullest conviction of that gentleman as to the possibility of the Tunnel being perfected, for which purpose a house had been taken for him close by the Tunnel. A new shield will have to be made; but in the making of this there will be no impediment in the prosecution, as many preparatory steps must be taken, and which have been going on since the beginning of November last. Mr. Brunell will not commence the Tunnel from the north side, but continue the line on the south side, beginning where they left off. The accounts were then read by Mr. Burkitt, beginning from January 1, 1834, to December, 1834. On the credit side there was an account of admission-money to view the Tunnel, 1,1197. 18s.; while on the debit side, on account of advertising the exhibition of the Tunnel, 3007. St. James's Park.-A new and handsome entrance has recently been made into this park at the end of Duke street, close by the New State Paper-office, and about mid-way between Storey's-gate and the Horse-Guards. It consists of a broad double flight of granite steps, eight steps to each flight, with a spacious landing between. On either side is a lofty granite wall with square pillars at each end, and capped with a handsome coping. There are two neat double iron gates, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the steps. The new entrance cuts off a very considerable angle in going from the Westminster Guildhall to Charing-cross. The licensing magistrates of Marylebone have suspended the licenses of all houses which have been opened merely as gin-palaces, and where tap-rooms for the accommodation of the labouring man had been abolished. amount of each deposit was 351. In the Wiltshire banks of a similar description, the number of accounts opened is 7089. The average amount of each is 371. Population, 239,181. HERTFORDSHIRE. As some men were employed in digging at Pirton, near Hitchin, they discovered a skeleton and some fragments of coarse pottery about 18 inches from the surface. Upon further digging, on that and the following days, they found 30 skeletons and urns containing burnt bones. The bodies appeared to have been placed regularly at the distance of a yard asunder, with the head turned to the east. The urns were scattered amongst them without regularity. The bones, with the exception of the teeth, which are remarkably sound and white, are so decayed that they fall to pieces when touched. Some of the skeletons are above the common height, but others are small enough to have belonged to children. The field is called Dane-field, and may have been a burying-place of some of the early inhabitants of Britain. It is within sight of, and not more than a mile distant from, a very curious and extensive encampment, called Ravensborough, which, probably at first constructed by the Romans, was afterwards occupied by the Danes, and named from their standard, bearing the figure of a raven. KENT. Antiquarian Discovery.-In the Dissenters' burial-ground, near Dover-road, there were recently found a sepulchral urn, fractured pieces of a metallic mirror of elegant workmanship, the fragments of a glass urn, and some glass lachrymatories in the shape of a tear. A great number of similar urns had been previously found in digging graves there. These relics were discovered in the old Roman Watling-street. It was the custom both with the Britons and Gauls to deposit with the remains of the dead the ornaments and weapons which they most esteemed in life, and to fracture them at the time of being interred with the body or deposited in the funeral urn. SOMERSETSHIRE. A Company is forming at Bristol with a capital of half a million, divided into shares of 1001. each, for the purpose of opening a direct trade with China. Suspension Bridges. At a meeting of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Company Mr. West's report on the principle of wire suspension-bridges was read and approved. This gentleman has recently been examining the suspension.bridges of France and Switzerland, most of which are of wire. He stated that pre- viously to the opening of the Fribourg bridge, in October last, proof was made of its capability of sustaining great weight, by placing 36 horses, 14 pieces of artillery, and 300 people upon it at one time, which did not cause the slightest derangement in the structure. Upon the occasion of opening the bridge, a grand procession of the clergy and municipal authorities took place, when no less than 4800 persons, estimated at 90 tons, were at once on the bridge. The two largest bridges over the Saone, at Lyons, are of wire, and are crossed by the heavy diligences, weighing 5000lbs. each, and allowed by law to carry 6000lbs. more. WALES. Linsey-Woolsey.-A patriotic lady, in Anglesea, has lately introduced some improvements in the mode of manufacturing the native staple of linsey-woolsey, which has procured for it great admiration from several persons of distinction; and some of the aristocracy of England are now to be seen in cloaks and waistcoats of Anglesea manufac ture. The beauty of the country are also to be seen vying with each other in the selection of the most tasteful and becoming patterns. An eminent house in London has sent down demands for 66 any quantity that can be manufactured." - Welshman, . WARWICKSHIRE. The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal has at length been completed, and opened for the transit of goods. SCOTLAND. The sea has been observed to run higher on the Bell Rock during the late gales than it has hitherto been known to do. The monthly returns from the lighthouse for January bears that on the 17th the springs rose 116 feet, and drifted over the building; and on the 18th and 19th they rose 110 feet. It is worthy of remark that the groundswell or heaviest sea preceded the highest wind by two days. Several large masses of rock, called "travellers" by the light-keepers, have been thrown from the deep upon the rock one of which measures 8ft. 6in. in length, 2ft. Gin. in breadth, and 4ft. in thickness, or about 5 tons. The visitation of these travellers is a source of great interest to the light-keepers, who proceed to break them up with large hammers, when at all manageable, to prevent their drifting upon the cast-iron railways or landingwharfs.-Edinburgh Evening Courant, Greenock Waterworks. - The exten sive waterworks formed at Greenock in 1829, not only abundantly supply that town with good water for the consump tion of its inhabitants, but also give the company who constructed them the command of a water-power equal at least to 1666 horses, which may be used for the turning of mills and other purposes requiring power. These works were projected and executed by Mr. Robert Thorne, engineer, of Rothsay. The stream called Shaw's water was taken and brought by a watercourse six and a half miles in length to Greenock; the fall is 512 feet, every inch of which has been made available; and the water is collected in reservoirs, so that none of it is wasted. There is now, therefore, a vast amount of water-power at the disposal of this company, in the immediate neighbourhood of Greenock, and this power is now offered to be disposed of at a low rate for manufacturing pur poses. Composition for Taxes.-We think it right to inform our readers, that by the Act of 4th and 5th William IV. c. 54, all persons who are desirous of renewing their former compositions, and all persons who have not already compounded, and who wish to avail themselves of the present Act to enter into composition, should give notice to the Clerks to Commissioners, or the Surveyor of the District in which they reside, of such their intention, on or before the 5th day of April next, after which day no notices can be received, and they will be precluded from compounding. We understand that notices may be had on application to the Collectors of Parishes, or the Surveyors. INDEX TO THE FIRST PART OF 1835. Actresses, the old, 358 Adelphi Theatre, performances at, 115 Advice to a nobleman, on the instruction of 101 Artists, British, exhibition of the society of, Arts, fine, 112, 254, 384, 522 proceedings of the society of, 259 Ascension Island, moss of, 264 Back, Captain, intelligence from, 122 Ball projector, a new one, 391 Barne, Rev. Thomas, some account of, 277 Birds, lines on, 477 Blessington, Countess of, her novel "The Bob, my honourable friend, 348 Boid, Captain, his Description of the Azores, Bone, Henry, Esq., particulars respecting, Book of Science, noticed, 110 Braham and Incledon, 88 British Institution, exhibition of, 384 Burford, Mr., his panoramas, 113 Burnes, Lieutenant, novels of, 118 Burns, new edition of his works, reviewed, 241 Cambridge Installation, 96 502 Cape of Good Hope, intelligence from, 409, Captive Heart, the, 230 Capybara, described, 391 Champagne Vintage, the, 264- Changes and Chauces, noticed, 249 Chaucer, Tales from, noticed, 105 Civic Sagacity, 509 Clubs of London, 10 Cockney's Rural Sports, 487 Coins, ancient, discovered, 142, 415 Coleridge, his "Remorse," 86; Charles College of Physicians, proceedings of, 386 Colonies, the, state of, 133, 272, 408, 545 Confessions of William Shakspeare, 1, 306 Cooke, George, his Views of London and Cooke, Tom, anecdotes of, 86 Cotton, total produce and consumption of, Diamond, valuable, discovered, 126 Drury Lane Theatre, performances at, 115, Dufief, N. G., Esq., some account of, 139 Edith, lines to, 305 Egyptian history, outline of, 393 Election movements, 235 Election statistics, 143 Elephant, skeleton of one, discovered, 125 Emancipation, consequences of, 95 Embalming, process of, 392 English Singers and Singing, 442 Entomological Society, meeting of, 119 Epistle to the Hebrews, a new Translation, Event, a coming one, 238 Exile of Erin, noticed, 251 Faraday, Mr., his lecture on heat, 267 Felix, Major, his Journey to Mount Sinai, Heath, James, Esq., some account of, 136 High and Low Life, print of, noticed, 254 Hops, amount of duty on, 122 House of Commons, debates in, 407, 541 Hume and Smollett's History of England, Hunt, Leigh, on Giants, Ogres, and Cyclops, 170 I can't decide, 181 Incledon, anecdotes of, 88 India, intended short cut to, 125; news Inglis, H. D., his "Ireland in 1834,” re- Ireland, trigonometrical survey of, 123 Jackson, General, notice respecting, 231 Johnston, the actor, his powers of imitation, 85 Johnstone, Jack, his singing, 86 Kean and Cooke's wardrobes, 87 Kelly, Rev. Thomas, the Catholic Primate, Kemble Family, the, 239 -John, and Claremont, 358 Körner, Theodore, his "The Lyre and Lamb, Charles, his last words on Coleridge, Law and Equity, violation of, 372 Lemaitre, M., performances of, 525 Linacre, Dr. Thomas, memoirs of, noticed, |