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The Oxford Commemoration this year was numerously attended. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says, that while the healths of the Queen, the Dutchess of Kent, and Sir Robert Peel were rap- turously received, the name of the Duke of Wellington excited more hisses than cheers, and that of Lord Brougham more cheers by far than hisses. Admiral Dundas, on whom a Doctorate was conferred, was loudly cheered.
On Friday week, a very numerous meeting of lay-payers of the bo- rough and township of Macclesfield was held, for the purpose, among other business, of laying a rate for the ensuing year. The rate, six- pence in the pound, was refused by a large majority. The Waterloo, a man-of-war rated at 120 guns, was launched at Chatham on Tuesday last. The weather was fine, and the crowd of persons assembled for the purpose of witnessing the launch from Lon- don and the vicinity was very great. The men-of-war and all the yachts were decorated with flags, and the river wes covered with boats. The arrangements were very complete, and no accident of any kind occurred.
On Sunday last, time ceremony of the dedication of the new syna- gogue at Ramsgate, built by Moses Montefiore, was performed in the presence of the Reverend Solomon Herschel and the Reverend David Meldoler, Chief Rabbies of the German and -Spanish synagogues in London. This building has been erected in fulfilment of a vow made by Mr. Montefiore during his residence in the Holy Land—that if it should please Heaven to allow him to return to his native country, he would dedicate a temple to the service of the God of his ancestors.
The tempestuous weather, whose effects in the Metropolis and its neighbourhood we mentioned last week, was felt in many parts of the in- terior of the country ; and on the sea-coast considerable damage was done to the shipping by its violence. In Halifax, there was a violent hail- storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning; some of the hail-stones were two inches in circumference. At Sheffield, Northampton, Leam- ington, and throughout the greater part of the South and West of England, the horricene was severely felt, and -much damage none to
vegetation. Aq Margate, two ships were driven ashore. At I Liverpool ten eessels were lost ; the p..ssengers and crews were saved Iout of nine, but all sunk on board one of the vessels.
A pleasure-beat, containing two young men and three young. women,. was upset on Saturday last, near Deal. Two of the women were drowned, and the third is dangerously ilJ. The men swum to shore, though not without making greet exertious to save their female coma pan ioes ; two of whom were supported in the water for some time by- i one of them.
In February last, Richard Cartwright, who kept an inn in Sunder- land, %vas dragged cut of his house, and most severely beaten, by two. men who had a quarrel with him. He became very ill, and vomited, blood in consequence of this treatment For two months he grew gra-
dually muse, and died last week. An Inquest was held on the body on . Friday week : six of the Jury were for bringing i a verdict of wilful murder against the men who had beaten him ; se x0, however, would not agree to it ; so they finally deteraniued pa the following verdict- " Died of Pan:onus. y Consumption !" About three weeks ago, an inquest was held upon the body of an il- legitimate child, and that of its mother, who had killed herself; after murdering the infant, at Fortin orth, near Bolton. On Monthly week, Dr. Macfarlane, who proved at the inquest that tine child had been killed by some sulphuric acid which had been given it for that purpose, poisoned himself, by swallowing a large quantitpof laudanum.
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