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INCIDENTS ABRIDGED-—-On Saturday the Queenhonoured the Terrace with her presence, to the great gratifi* cation of the numerous visitors on that beautiful promenade-^The Duke and DuchM of Gloucester have presented a 191*Hdonation to the Choral Fund—Mr. Leonard Homer. Warden of the London University, has resigned, it is said, owing to theGovernors having reduced his salary from 12001. to lOOflh perannum.—Mr. Grant will, on the re-assembling of Parliament, move “ that notice be given to the East India Company, as re* quired by the Act 53d Geo. IIL c* 155, s. 3* aspreliminary to Uie termination of their ' CharterThe Duke of Dcvomwehas given 1001. to wards the relief of the distressed miners of Dei*byshlre Peak—The total number of the oaths taken and affida* vits made before the Board of Excise last year amounted to 194,012—The French Courts of Law have at length decided on the right of Catholic Priests tq be married—At the Auction Mart on Thursday a Jamaica freehold estate of 3406 acres, with one hundred arid ninety ifagroes and 100 head of homedii,m g m*1 again*that human hetngs ought not to be sold!—It I* rumoured thatcattle, were knocked down at ll,4u0 guineas! Two persons of respectable appearance protested against the sale* on the ground that human oetnas out t not to be sold!—It iarumoured thata certain fascinating actress is likely to obtain a footing among the CouptcsSea of the United K!» Greenwich Hospital is in future to be open to tatdwt-seamen as well as to those in his Majesty’s seryJttU^gi** teen poor fishermen were lost in a dreadful hum cam Londonderry coast an Thursday sehinight*—Caroline Coafreva,* QO»3 fully committed*on Saturday frotorious crimp, wasPolice Office’for trial, charged with robbing a sailor just paid offhis arrival in Gracechurch-stxeet onat Chatham of 1501. On Friday afternoon by coach, she decoyed him into a public-house, made film drunk, and then emptied his pockets* Having, been watched by a person present, she was secured and all the moneyrecovered to the great ioy or poor Jack I—A. poor fellow namedrecovered w me great joy ox poor iWi poor xenow named James Green, confined in St. Luke’s road-house, was suffocatedin his crib on Wednesday night by a fellow .maniac named Barrett, who had unfortunately not been tied down for thecelebrated duck case tried at Worcester about three years since, when the Re^ch solemnly decided that a dead duck was notn f?n/4r t '
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London County Herald and Weekly Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Apr 09, 1831
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