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BIRTHS.

On the 7th December, at Melton Mowbray, the Hon. Mrs. Coventry, of a son.

On the 11th, at Pentloe Hall, Essex, the Wife of Henry Coldham Mathew, Esq., of a son and heir.

On the 11th, at Blackadder, Lady Houston Boswell, of a son.

On the 13th, at Wykeham, the Viscountess Downe, of a son.

On the 14th, at Brodie House, Fornes, the Hon. Mrs. Grant, Wife of Colonel Grant, C.B., Aide-de-camp to the -Queen, of a son.

Lately, at Worthing, the Lady of Lieutenant-General Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, M.P., of a eon.

MARRIAGES.

On the 8th December, at St. Thomas's, Ardwick, Benjamin, youngest son of Thomas Weall, Esq., of Rickmansworth, Hens, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the Rev. Charles Alford, Rector of West Quantoxhead, Somersetshire. On the 9th, at Horton, Northampton, the Bev. Granville Sykes Howard Vyse, Rector of Boughton and Pitsford, in the same county, fifth son of General Howard Vyse, of Stoke Place, Slough, Bucks, to Lilly Anne, second daughter of the late Major Gunning, of the Seventeenth Native Infantry.

On the 9th, at Aston, Harts, William Jeffries Beckingsale, Esq., of Newport, Isle of Wight, to Margaret Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Rev. Woolley Leigh Bennett. Rector of Water Stratford and Foxcott, Bucks.

On the 14th, at St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, by the Rev. J. W. Whiteside, D.C.L., Vicar, the Rev. John Oates, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford, Curate of Scar- borough, to Harriette, daughter of Samuel Wheaton, Esq., of Scarborough. On the 14th, at the Abbey Church, Great Malvern, Walter Birch, Esq., Captain H.E.I.C.S., to Jane, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General Birch, C.B., Royal Engineers. On the 14th, at St. Nicholas, Worcester, the Rev. Octavus Fox, M.A., Rector of Rnightwick, Worcestershire, to Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of J. P. Sheppard, Esq., of Worcester.

DEATHS.

On the 31st October, at Queen's House, Barbadoes, of virulent yellow fever, the Rev. Edward Dix Wood, M.A., second son of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Wood, C.B., Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands ; in his 27th year.

On the 6th November, at Shot Hall, Barbadoes, of the prevailing epidemic, Mary, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Wright, commanding Royal Engineers in the West Indies.

On the 10th, at Barbadoes, of .yellow fever, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Williams, commanding the Royal Artillery in the West Indies ; in his 60th year. On the 17th, on board H. M. S. Dauntless, at Barbadoes, Arthur C. Couper, fourth son of Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., of malignant yellow fever. On the 30th, at Heise, near Brackley, Thomas Bannard, Esq. ; in his 91st year. He was rather eccentric, and kept both his coffin and grave-stone ready for use. On the 6th December, Harriet, wife of Commander Oldmixon, and Sister of Sir William Scott, Bart., of Ancrum, county of Roxburgh, N.B. On the 8th, at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, Joseph Grout, Esq. • in his 76th year. On the 9th, in Everton Crescent, Liverpool. Mrs. Yates. Wid'ow of the late Wil- liam Yates, Esq., of Springside, Lancashire •, in her 93d year. On the 10th, at the East India College, Haileybury, William Empson, Esq., Pro- fessor of Law ; in his 62d year. On the 12th, Lieutenant-Colonel John Castle Gant, for many years a Magistrate for the county of Middlesex, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the Tower Hamlets ; in his 76th year. On the 12th, Louisa Ratharine,!daughter of Colonel and Lady Laura Meyriek ; in her 21st year. On the 14th, in Cadogan Place, William Ballantine, Esq., for many years a Magis- trate of the Thames Police Court ; in his 74th year. On the 15th, at Wandsworth Common, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoper ; in her 92d year. On the 16th, at Nelson Lodge, Chelsea, Lady btronge, relict of William Holmes, Esq., of Grafton Street.