Mr. Francis Wright. who for nearly forty years filled the
situation of one of the principal messengers of the House of Commons, died re- cently, at his residence in Beaumont Street, Marylebone, at the ad- vanced age of seventy-live. We understand that Mr. Wright, who was always remarkable for his penurious and saving habits and close atten- tion to business, has left bchind him 75,000/. in the Funds, besides con- siderable freehold and leasehold property, in houses and lands—amount- ing it is supposed to about 100,0ont. Mr. Wright had been three times married, but had no children hr either union. The whole of his accumu- lations, with the exception of legacies of 1001. each to two of the officers of the Commons, and an annuity of 40/. to an old female servant, he has bequeathed to the relatives of his last wife, who died a few months since. The family of the Reverend Mr. Ward, who married a niece of the late Mrs. Wright, come into possession of 55,000/..—Stataurd.
Her Majesty's ship Powerful, Captain Napier, has, it seems, lost se- weed men by desertion, and it is thend impracticable to complete her crew for active service. This is said to be owing to the adoption of some novel mode of propelling the ship by a machine resembling a tread-wheel, which the sailors think degrading, as resembling the labour of convicts, and not that of their native element.—Standanf.
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