of monumental memorials. To this donation Mr. Ormerod bas added the inclosure of the Church-yard at his own expence with a stone wall and iron railing, and contributed also a peal of six Bells, an Organ, the Communion Plate, Books, and Pulpit furniture. The entire donation exceeds two thousand pounds, exclusive of the original grant of the land to the Commissioners.

June 13. The first stone was laid, with great solemnity and rejoicings, of the intended enlargement of Mirfield Church, Yorkshire. The whole of the alterations, though very extensive, and amounting nearly to the re-building, is to be effected by the inhabitants, without any aid either from Government or any other quarter. Besides the large sum thus actually advanced for improving the Parish Church, several hundred pounds were put down in the room where the Committee had dined, towards meeting a grant which his Majesty's Commissioners have made to Mirfield, for building a new Church in a distant part of that populous Parish.

July 11. The foundation-stone of the new Church in St. Clement's, Oxford, was laid, and excited considerable interest, from its being the first Church in that City on a new site since the Reformation. It is in an open field, commanding a delightful view of Oxford and the surrounding country.

July 20. A distressing fire, of a most extensive nature, broke out at Christchurch, Hants. It spread with such alarming rapidity, owing to the dryness of the weather, and the houses being chiefly thatched, that upwards of filty houses were destroyed, and the distressed inmates rendered homeless.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. The Quarter just closed furnishes a proof that the improvement in the last year is not evanescent in its character. On the Customs and Excise, taken together, there is an increase over the produce of the corresponding quarter of last year of 225,0781. Some of the other branches of the Revenue are still more favourable; and the total increase, in the quarter ending July 5, 1825, exceeds that of the corresponding quarter of last year by 504,0417.

June 21. In the Court of Chancery, some time since, an injunction was moved for, to restrain the publishers of the Lancet from promulgating the lectures of Mr. Abernethy, the surgeon, such lectures having been delivered solely for the professional improvement of his pupils; the injunction was moved for on the grounds of a violation

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of literary property, a breach of trust, and of implied contract. Mr. Brougham had argued that there were no grounds whatever for the motion, and that the alleged violations had not been proved; but the Lord Chancellor this day decided to the contrary; his Lordship said he had advised with the Common Law Judges on the subject, who were unanimously of opinion, that if the publication were by a pupil, an action for damages would lie against him, as the common law would assume an implied contract, or that if the publication were by a person who received his information through a pupil, a similar action would lie against the person thus publishing, for the law would not permit that which could only be obtained by fraud to be employed by a third party to the injury of the person in whom the property existed. In this view of the law, he perfectly concurred; and he was of opinion, that it had been made satisfactorily to appear, that this publication was effected by either a breach of implied contract or of trust, and ou either of these grounds, Mr. Abernethy was entitled to the injunction" prayed. The Lord Chancellor confirmed the injunction, and ordered it to be issued.

June 21. This afternoon, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Cruzett, carver and gilder, in Great Titchfield-street, which was attended with the most destructive consequences. It communicated to the stables and hay-loft of Mr. Woolley, livery-stable keeper, and in less than an hour the destruc tion of nearly the whole of the neighbourhood was completed, the flames spreading over the houses of Margaret-street, Mortimer-street, Titchfield-street, and Great Portlaud-street. In the rear of the houses

the fire raged with tremendous fury, and did considerable damage. Between twenty and thirty buildings were reduced to a pile of ruins.

June 25. That splendid building recently erected (at a cost of 30,0007.) in Pall Mall East, the Royal College of Physicians, was opened with great pomp, in the presence of their R. H. the Dukes of York, Sussex, Cambridge, and Glouces ter, Prince Leopold, several Cabinet Ministers, and other distinguished persons. Soon after three o'clock, the President, Sir Henry Halford, dressed in his full robes, entered the room, attended by the Officers of the Corporation, and delivered an oration in Latin. His Majesty, on the same morning, bad bestowed on Sir H. Halford the Guelphic Order, which was worn by him at the ceremony.

June 25. The new Church of St. Mary, at Greenwich, was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford. The ceremony was attended by Lord Bexley, the rest of the Committee, and about 2,000 persons, many of the first distinction. Mr. Basevi is the architect.

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GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

War Office, July 1.-Unattached-Maj. Fitzgerald, 95th Foot, to be Lieut.-col. Infantry, vice Pratt.-Capt. Churchill, 75th Foot, to be Major of Infantry.

July 2.-Maj. Genls. Sir J. Campbell, Sir E. Blakeney, Sir J. Maclean, Sir R. D. Jackson, Sir H. F. Bouverie, Lord H. Somerset, and Rear Adm. Sir T. M. Hardy, to be Knights Comm. of the Bath.-Maj.gen. Sir T. Munro, Governor of Madras, to be a Bart. of the United Kingdom.

July 4.-Maj.-gen. Bourk to be Lieut. gov. of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope.

War Office, July 9.—Unattached—Maj. Drummond, 72d Foot, to be Lieut.-col.Capt. Fitzroy, Royal Reg. of Horse Guards, to be Major.-Capt. Bingham, 1st Reg. of Life Guards, to be Major of Infantry,

July 16.-Coldst. Reg. of Foot Guards, Col. J. Macdonnell to be Lieut.-col.; Lieut.col. J. Hamilton to be Major, with the rank of Col.; Lieut.-col. W. H. Raikes to be Major, with the rank of Col. vice Macdonnell.; Brevet Lieut.-col. G. Bowles, and Brevet Major Sir C. A. F. Bentinck; Lieut.-col. G. Fitz-Clarence, vice Hamilton.; Lieut.-col. F. Russell, vice Raikes, to be Capts. and Lieut.-cols.-95th Ditto, Maj. W. G. Cameron, 1st or Gren. Reg. to be Lieut.-col. vice Brown; Lieut.-col. A. C. Wylly, to be Lieut.-col. vice Cameron. Unattached: Capt. J. H. J. Stapleton, 3d Reg. Foot Guards, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. J. A. Schreiber, 6th Drag. Guards, to be Major. Brevet: To be Aides-de-Camp to his Majesty, with the rank of Col. in the Army; Lieut.-col. R. C. St. John Lord Clinton; and Lieut.-col. C. Morland, 9th Light Dragoons. To be Major-Capt. D. Urquhart, 39th Reg.

July 16.-Sir Philip Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton Park, Cheshire, to be a Bart. to use the surname of Grey, in addition to, and before, that of Egerton, and bear the arms of Grey de Wilton, quarterly with those of Egerton; as his late brother did, see p. 8.

MEMBER RETUENED TO PARLIAMENT. Tyrone.-The Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, of Ahenis, co. Tyrone, and of Castlecoole, Fermanagh, vice Štewart,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Walter Fletcher, to a Prebendal Stall in York Cathedral.

Rev. James Johnson to the Prebendal Stall
of Hampton, in Hereford Cathedral.
Rev. C. Nixon, to a Prebendal Stall in
Southwell Collegiate Church, Notts.
Rev. J. Cross, to be Precentor, and Rev. W.

Miller a Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral. Rev. J. Brown, Bottisham V. co. Camb. Rev. R. R. Faulkner, St. Sepulchre's P. C. Cambridge.

Rev. R. Edmonds, Woodleigh R. Devon. Rev. Morgan Evans, to the Benefice of

Builth, and Llanddewir cwm, co. Brecon. Rev. J. Tapp Griffith, Great Elme R. Somerset.

Rev. H. E. Head, Bromfield P. C. Kent.
Rev. H. Jones, Northop V. Flintshire.
Rev. W. B. Leach, Sutton Montague R.;

with Lovington P. C. Somerset.
Rev. G. A. Legge, Bray V. Berks.
Rev. T. Musgrave, St. Mary the Great P. C.
Cambridge.

Rev. Dr. Spry, Mary-le-bonne R. Middx. Rev. J. Stratton, Halston V. Kent; also a

Minor Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. Rev. H. Tripp, Blackborough R. Devon. Rev. V. F. Vyvyan, Withell R. Cornwall. Rev. C. Ward, Moulden R. co. Bedford. Rev. John West, Evercreech V. Somerset,

with Chesterblade Chapelry annexed. Rev. W. B. Whitehead, Chard V. Somerset. Rev. G. E. Whyley, Eaton Bray V. Beds. Rev. T. Wynter, Daylesford R. co. Worc. Rev. R. Richards, Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex.

Rev. G. G. Smith, Domestic Chaplain to

the Duke of York.

Rev. John Langley, of Worcester, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Stirling.

DISPENSATION.

Rev. A. Stapleton, to hold Halwill R. with that of East Budleigh, Devon.

May 11. At Upper Kennington Green, the wife of John McDermott, esq. a dau. June 26. At Woburn Vicarage, Bucks, the wife of Rev. Alexander Dallas, a son. -28. at the Residentiary House, the wife of the Rev. Wm. V. Vernon, Canon Residentisry of York Cathedral, and son of his Grace the Archbishop, a son and heir.-At Overlegh Hall, near Chester, the wife of Captain

J. Patterson, a son.-29. At Eccleshall Castle, the Hon. Mrs. Ryder, wife of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, a son.-30. the wife of Adolphus Meetkerke, esq. of Julians, Herts, a dau.

Lately. In Stratton-st. Piccadilly, Lady Jane Peel, a dau.

July 2. At Holdernesse-house, Park-lane, the

May 26. At Mary-le-boune church, the Rev. Nathaniel Best, to Mary dau. of Eardley Wilmot Michell, esq. of Wargroves, Sussex.

Lately. The Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, son of Lord Scarsdale, to Sophia, 2d dau. of Robert Holden, esq. of Nuttall-temple, Notts.. W. C. Hamilton, esq. of Craighlaw, to Anne, dau. of Rev. Dr. Stewart, of Kirkcowan, Wigtonshire.At. St. Clement Danes, Thomas Price Wyune, esq. East India Co's Bengal Med. Service, to Anne Maria dau. of the late R. H. Cox, esq. of Christchurch, Hants.

June 28. At Broxborne church, Herts, Donat. Henchy O'Brien, esq. Capt. R.N. to Hannah, dau. of late John Walmsley, esq. of Castlemeer, co. Lancaster.-At Thorney Abbey, Rev. Harry Smith, to Ann, dau. of late J. Wing, esq.-29. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. John Fountaine, esq. to Marian Catherine, dau. of late W. Hodges, esq. R.A. -30. At Sherborne, George Rider, esq. of Grenno-house, near Sheffield, to Matilda, dau, of late Mr. J. Thirkell.- -G. W. C. Stapylton, esq. son of Major-gen, the Hon. G. A. C. Stapylton, to Catherine, dau. of John Butteel, esq. of Fleet, Devonshire.

-At Saling-grove, Essex, Thos. Barrett, Lennard, esq. M.P., eldest son of Sir T. B. Lennard, bart. of Belhus, to Mary, dau. of late Bartlet Bridger Shedden, esq. of Gowerstreet, London.

July 2. At Croydon church, Capt. John Simcoe Macauly, R. Eng. to Anne Gee, dau. of late John Elmsley, esq. Chief Justice of Lower Canada.-4. At St. George's, Hanover-square Capt. Price Blackwood, R. N. to Helen Selina, dau. of the late Thomas Sheridan, esq.—--At George's, Hanover-square, S. Waymouth, esq. to Eliz. eldest surviving dau. of late Hugo Meynell, esq. of Quorndon-hall, co. Leicester.--At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Charles Greenwood, esq. of Great Queen-street, to Ann Louisa Adriana, dau. of Rev. Alex. Sterky, of James-street, Buckingham-gate.. 5. At Ribbesford church, James Taylor, esq. of Moore-green, Worcestershire, to Anne Eliz. dau. of Walter Michael Moseley, esq. of Winterdyne.At Dinton, Wilts, Rev. Wadham Knatchbull, son of Wyndham Knatchbull, esq. of Russell-place, to Louisa Eliz. third dau. of Wm. Wyndham, esq. of Dinton. Turvey, Bedfordshire, Rev. John Ayre, to Henrietta, dau. of Rev. Leigh Richmond,

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At

Rector of Turvey.At Woodford, Essex, Richard Bennett, esq. of Spital-square, to Ann Isabella, eldest dau. of Rupert Kink, esq. of Grove-lodge, Woodford.-6. At St. Peter's, Leeds, the Rev. J. Ackworth, to Sarah, dau. of M. Thackrey, esq. St. Ann's-hill, Burley. At Christchurch, Hants, Hector B. Monro, esq. son of the late lieut.t.-gen. Monro, to Lewina, dau. of L. D. G. Tregonwell, esq. of Cranbournelodge.- -At St. George's, Lieut. Charles W. Ross, R. N. to Sophia dau. of David Richardson, esq. of Wellclose-square.-7. At Great Stambridge, Essex, the Rev. W. Worsley, to Louisa Ann, dau. of the Rev. Wm. Benson Ramsden.--At Seal, near Sevenoaks, Sir William Ashburnham, bart. of Broomham, Sussex, to Juliana, dau. of late Rev. Wm. Humphry.-At Milford, Hants, Rev. Henry Cookeram, of Beckenham, Kent, to Mary Octavia, dau. of late Sir W. Fraser, bart.- -8. At Ilfracombe, Devon, Capt. Alder, R. N. of Southampton, to Miss Isabella Mary Forrest.—9. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Henry Shiffner, esq. Capt. R. N. eldest son of Sir George Shiffner of Coombe-place, Sussex, to Emily, dau. of late Thomas Brooke, esq. of Church Minshull, Cheshire.At Felbrigg, Henry Baring, esq. M. P. of Somerley, Hants, to Cecilia Anne, eld, dau. of Rear Adm. Windham.-11. At the house of the British Consul at Dunkerque, in France, the Right Hon. Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, M. P. 2d son of the late of the late Earl of Clare, to Diana, eldest dau. of late Chas. Woodcock, esq.-12. At Islington church, and at the French Ambassador's chapel, Mons. P. E. Alletz, to Elizabeth, third dau. of late J. Green, esq. of Highbury-park.— -18. At Portobello, near Edinburgh, Col. James Hamilton, from Columbia, to Marian Eliz. dau. of the late John Anderson, esq. of Winterfield.At Inch-house, Edinburgh, Major Robert Gordon, of Hillhead, to Jane, dau. of the late Walter Little Gilmour, esq.At Walcot church, Bath, the Rev. J. King, son of the Bishop of Rochester, to Maria, dau. of the Hon. Lieut.-col. George Carlton,

-14. At St. James's Church, Arthur Capel, Esq. nephew to the Earl of Essex, to the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Janetta Beauclerk, third dau. of late Duke of St. Alban's.-15. At Seaton, in Devonshire, the Rev. Cecil Robert Smith, to Mary Jane, eldest dau, of late Col. Warreu, 3d Guards. OBITUARY.