9 MAY 1829, page 13

Lingard's History Of England—volume Seventh*.

IT may be thought presumptuous in a journal of seven days gestation, to sit in judgment upon the work of years—of numberless nights and days of study—of long-continued......

More Military Memoirs*.

Tuts is quite a family affair; and unless it serves any private purposes of the author, we do not see much reason for its publication. Events of the most interesting kind to a......

Gleanings.

SILK.— It has been found by experiment, that a silk covering tonna the face and head, acts as a protection against malaria and febrile contagion. If, as it is supposed, the......

Literary Announcements.

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Craig-Millar Castle, and other Poems. By John Gordon Smith, M.D., M.R.S.L.— The Village Nightingale and other Tales. By......

The Universities.

OXFORD, May 1.—In a convocation holden yesterday, the Bev. Ashhurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. Principal of Brasennose, was nominated, and approved, as a perpetual Delegate of......

The Church.

The Rev. George Hodson, M.A. Minister of Christ Church, Birmingham, and formerly Fellow of Magdalene College, has been appointed Archdeacon of Stafford, and a Canon Residentiary......

The Army.

WAR - OFFICE, May 7. — The half-pay of the under-mentioned officers has been cancelled from the 8th of May, 1820, inclusive, on their receiving a commuted allowance for their......

East India Shipping. Friday Evening.

We have several arrivals from India this week, hut all of them are of older dates than vessels which we have formerly reported. No additional information has been received......

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

BIRTRs. — On the 2d inst. in Wimpole.street, the Lady of W. Marshall, Esq. M.P. of a son and heir—On the 1st inst. at Buckland-house, near Portsmouth, the Lady of J. C. Schetky,......