LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. THE author of "Selwyn" has a new volume in the press, entitled " Olympia Morata: her Times, Life and Writings." This work has been arranged and compiled from contemporary and other authorities. "The Van Diemen's Land Almanack" for the current year has just reached this country, and will be published in a few days. Mr. James Baillie Fraser, the author of "The Kuzzilbash," "The Highland Smugglers," &c. has contributed a volume to the" Library of Romance." It is a Persian Romance, entitled "The Khan's Tale." "Mr. Agassiz's Journey to Switzerland, and Pedestrian Tours in that Country," will appear early this month, accompanied by a general account of Switzerland. "Friendship's Offering" (the oldest but one of our English Annuals), will appear this season, with its usual style of elegant illustrations and binding, while its literature will comprise contributions from the most popular writers of the age. "The Comic Offering," edited by Miss Sheridan, will be published at the same time, bound in morocco, and embellished with upwards of sixty humourous designs, by various comic artists, and enriched by contributions from the principal female, and other eminent writers of the day. Mrs. Bray is now preparing a uniform edition of her very popular "Historical and Legendary Romances," to be published in monthly volumes, neatly done up, and at a moderate price; the whole series to be comprised in fifteen or eighteen volumes. The Rev. Charles Tayler has commenced a series of narratives, in the same style and on the same subjects as Miss Martineau's Political Works, under the title of "Social Evils and their Remedy." The first number, entitled "The Mechanic," will ap pear on the first of September. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. At Leyton, Essex, the lady of William Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. At East Horsley, Surry, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. At Holt, by the Rev. W. R. Taylor, Rector of Barmingham, Thomas Andrews Girling, Esq., of the Grove, Holt, Captain H. P. 5th regiment, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the late William At Woolwich, the lady of Robert Dashwood, of Withers, Esq., solicitor, Holt, Norfolk. the Royal Engineers, of a daughter. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Lord Albert At Arklow House, Connaught Place, the Vis- Conyngham, second son of the late Marquis countess Acheson, of a daughter. Conyngham, to the Hon. Henrietta Maria, fourth At Malta, the lady of Sir Grenville Temple daughter of the late Lord Forester. Temple, Bart., of a son. At Edinburgh, the Lady Louisa Forbes, of a son and heir. At St. James's Church, Captain Charles Crespigny Vivian, eldest son of Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., Commander of the Forces in Ireland, to At 41, Wilton Crescent, the Lady Georgina Miss Scott, neice to the Earl of Meath. Mitford, of twin sons. In Prussia, the lady of Major-General Gustavus Brown, of a son. At Blairvaddoch, Charles Forbes, Esq., second son of the late Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercairn, Bart., to Jemima Rebecca, daughter of the late Colonel Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry and Clanronald. At St. James's Church, William Hawes, Esq., of Montague Place, Russell Square, to Anna, At the Marquis of Bristol's, Lady Augusta Sey. daughter of Samuel Cartwright, Esq., of Old Burmour, of a daughter. At Clarence Cottage, near Portsmouth, the lady of Alexander Stuart, Esq., Surgeon to the Forces, of a daughter. The lady of George Barnard, Esq., of Cross Deep, Twickenham, of a son and heir. At 54, Great Marlborough Street, the wife of George Knox, Esq., of a son and heir. lington Street. At Florence, Alexander Bower, Esq., eldest son of Graham Bower, Esq., of Kincaldrum, Scotland, to the Countess Plagie Kossakowska, daughter of the Count Corwin Kossakowska and the Countess Louisa Potocki, Poland. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, George Hinde Cripps, Esq., of his Majesty's Civil Service, Cey lon, to Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Edward Bullock, Esq., of Jamaica, and of Upper Bedford Place. At St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, David Thurlow Cunynghame, eldest son of Sir David Cunynghame of Milncraig, Bart., to Anne, third daughter of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Robert Meade. At Westgate Church, Canterbury, J. G. Dalhousie Taylor, Esq., Captain 13th Light Infantry, youngest son of the late Lieut.-Col. Taylor, 20th Light Dragoons, to Sarah Eliza Knyvets, eldest daughter of William Knyvets, Esq., of Ryde, Isle of Wight. DEATHS. At Bamff, Lady Dunbar, relict of the late Sir William Dunbar of Durn, Bart., in her 90th year. At Henlow, Bedfordshire, of apoplexy, in his 68th year, the Rev. John Francis Stuart, Rector of Lower Gravenhurst. At his house in Manchester Square, Jeremiah Cloves, Esq., in his 79th year. son of Captain Holman, R. N., and nephew of the celebrated blind traveller. This fine promising young man was 3rd officer of the Horatio, bound to Madras and Calcutta, and he met with his untimely end by falling overboard from that ship in the middle of the night, to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. At his residence, Dover House, Whitehall, Lord Dover, in his 36th year. Of an apoplectic attack, in his 44th year, the Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth. At Great Marlow, Lady Mortlock, widow of Sir John Mortlock. At St. Alban's Place, Pall Mall, Captain Charles Julius Kerr, of the Royal Navy. At his residence, Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington, the Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Clarke. At Farleigh, in Kent, Martha Maria Beresford, widow of the late Rev. William Beresford, Rector of Sunning, Berks, in her 88th year. At Wimbledon, Sir William Beaumaurice Rush, At his seat, Baltinglass, Wicklow, the Earl of in his 83rd year. Alborough, in his 50th year. In Lower Mount Street, the Most Rev. Dr. Mr. William Henry Holman, in his 17th year, Laffan, Catholic Archbishop of Cashel. |