Welham, late host of the St. Thomas' Lodge, London, aged five years and two months, -October 3, brother Wolfendon, of the Poor Man's Friend Lodge, Thornhill.Novemder 12, brother George Stephenson, of the Hill of Glory Lodge, Shelley, and on the same day, brother Henry Dransfield's wife, of the Good Samaritan Lodge, Lepton.-November 28, brother Henry Gartside, of the Victory Lodge, Huddersfield. September 18, P. G. James Peters, Parbold Hall, of the Earl of Derby Lodge, Newborough; on the same day, brother Daniel Kershawe, of the Temple of Peace Lodge, Ormskirk; and November 6, P. V. John Gaskell, of the Earl of Derby Lodge, all in the Ormskirk District.-November 29, brother Waterhouse, of the Redemption Lodge, Marsden.-December 15, brother Joseph Pratt's wife, of the Amphibious Lodge, Bradley.-January 9, 1837, the wife of P. G. John Hardy, of the Good Samaritan Lodge, Lepton.-January 27, brother John Gartside, of the Redemption Lodge, Marsden.-February 8, the wife of brother Henry Haywood, of the Cornwallis Lodge, Mould Green, near Huddersfield.-February 9, the wife of brother Benjamin Brook, of the Truth and Sincerity Lodge, Huddersfield.-February 10, the wife of P. G. Thomas Astins, of the Good Samaritan Lodge, Lindley.-February 12, the wife of brother Abraham Schofield, of the Peace Lodge, Brighouse.-January 27, Elizabeth, wife of brother Titus Marsland, of the Beaumont Lodge, Kirkheaton.-January 12, Mary, the wife of P. G. George Furniss, of the Fleece Lodge, Little London, leaving six small children to lament her loss.-April 7, 1836, brother Stephen Moor, of the Miners' Lodge; and October 11, brother John Pargeter, of the Lord Durham Lodge, both of the Dudley District.-November 23, Edwin, the son of P. G. Henry Payne, of the Victory Lodge, Stockport, aged six years and three months.-February 6, 1837, of Influenza, Frances, daughter of P. D. G. M. James Adkin, of the Cumberland Lodge, Manchester.-December 14, brother Samuel Lord, of the Fleece Lodge, Birtle-cum-Bamford; he had been a member of the Order six years, about five of which he had been confined to his bed, and received full pay; his disease was fistula.November 25, aged 42, P. G. James Jones, of the Friend in Need Lodge, Varteg, Iron Works, Monmouthshire; he was interred in the church of Llanelley, with the rites of the Order, and amidst the sympathy and regret of the members who were present. --November 30, Harriet, the wife of brother Charles Jordan, of the Hanbury Lodge, Torvaen.-September 29, brother Benjamin Dockray, of the Stokesley District.September 21, brother Samuel Robinson, of the Phoenix Lodge, Mansfield District.January 23, 1837, John, (aged three years) and January 26, Thomas, (aged ten months) sons of brother John Kirk, of the Cumberland Lodge, Manchester.-June 26, 1836, brother James Patterson, of the Fountain of Peace Lodge, Newport. This was the first funeral of an Odd Fellow at this place, and was attended by an extraordinary concourse of persons.-January 18, brother Randal Clegg, pattern designer, of the Virtue Lodge, Tottington, leaving a wife and four small children.-October 26, Sarah Amelia, daughter of P. G. James Harberd, of the Clarence Lodge, Lewes, aged two years and five months.-April 27, P. D. G. M., John Snowden, of the Knaresbro District, formerly a P. G. of the Princess Charlotte Lodge, Barnsley.-February 7, brother Michael Hill, of the Good Intent Lodge, Halifax District.-November 11, Thomas, son of P. G. Thomas Nuttall, of the Heroes' Glory Lodge, Halifax, aged one year and ten months.-February 14, 1837, brother Edward Forman, of the King William the Fourth Lodge, Chesterfield District, aged 41, leaving a widow and six small children.-January 31, the wife of P. G. Matthew Greenlees, of the Philanthropic Lodge, Rochdale District, aged 45.-January 7, aged thirty-six years, brother William Ratcliffe, of the Good Samaritan Lodge, Marple Bridge.-November 30, P. Prov. G. M. John Kinder, of the Harmonicon Lodge, Wirksworth District, a tender parent, and useful officer.-February 7, P. G. James Bunting, of the Offspring of Hope Lodge, Wirksworth District, leaving a wife ahd four small children.-Nov. 19, P. V. host William Daighton, of the Pilot Lodge, Bradford, aged forty-one, greatly respected by his friends, and by the Order of which he had been a most valua ble member for upwards of fourteen years.—August 23, brother Stephen Jones, of the Prince of Wales Lodge, Mosley, after being afflicted with a disorder in his foot.February 26, 1837, P. G. Joshua Wood, of the Friendship Lodge, Upper Mills, Saddleworth District, aged 43.

(Births, &c., too late for this Number, will be inserted in the next.)

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THE subject of this brief Memoir was born at Rochdale, in the month of December, 1800; and on the 6th of December, 1823, he was initiated into the Briton's Pride Lodge, of the same place. In the following August he was elected Secretary of the Lodge, and afterwards passed through the offices of the Lodge with the greatest credit, and was always assiduous in the discharge of the various duties of each situation. He afterwards served the office of G. M. of the Rochdale District, at the time when the Manchester District was divided into circuits; and in July, 1829, he was chosen C. S. of the District-a situation which he still continues to hold to the satisfaction of the members of the District. He has been chosen as a Deputy to the Annual Moveable Committees held at Nottingham, Dudley, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Monmouth, Bury, Kendal, Derby, and London; the frequency of which appointments-being more than almost any other individual connected with the Order has been honored with-is a striking proof of the high esteem in which he has always been held by the District. He has also been appointed Auditor of the Accounts and Books of the Order for the years 1831-2, 1832-3, 1833-4. A further token of respect was also showed him by the gift of a splendid silver medal, granted by a vote of the District, and presented to him on the 30th of April, 1832, by G. M. Gray, during the time when that gentleman was first holding the office of G. M. of the Order.

The biography of an individual like C. S. Whitehead, cannot be made of that interest to the general reader as that of some of his contemporaries, who may have been placed (either by chance or inclination) in a more prominent situation, and who have been more called into action in the offices they have filled: but it can confidently be asserted that no man ever possessed a greater desire to serve the best interests of the Order, and to benefit its members, or have discharged the duties of their offices in a more regular and laudable manner, than C. S. Whitehead. He is deservedly respected and esteemed in the District to which he belongs. As a Deputy to A. M. C.s he is regular and attentive in his duties, and his accurate and extensive knowledge of the laws and usages of the Order renders his opinon of considerable importance. In personal appearance he is above the middle height, and of a fair complexion, and gives every prospect of a long continuance of his services in the cause of genuine Odd Fellowship.

THE LADY BURIED ALIVE.

(A romantic Story, or, Love is stronger than Death.)

Two merchants at Paris, living in the street of St. Honorius, were connected with each other by the sacred and inviolable ties of friendship; possessed of equal fortunes, and engaged in the same branch of trade. The one had a son, and the other a daugher; VOL. 4-No. 7-2 Q.

nearly of the same age. The first sentiments which made the daughter sensible that she was capable of love, also convinced her that her heart belonged to the son; who, in his turn, was no less attached to her. This reciprocal inclination was encouraged and kept up by frequent visits, authorised by both fathers, who, with pleasure, observed the disposition of their children, exactly suited to the intention they had of rendering them husband and wife. Accordingly, a marriage was just about to be concluded between them, when a rich collector of the king's revenues, made his addresses to the lady, as a lover; the delusive charms of a superior fortune, soon induced her parents to change their resolution with respect to their neighbour's son; and the lady's aversion to her new lover being surmounted by her filial duty, she married the collector, and like a virtuous woman, discharged the gentleman whom the loved from ever seeing her again. The melancholy brought on by an engagement so fatal to her happiness, threw her into a disorder, in which her senses were so locked up, that she was taken for dead, and interred as such. We may readily suppose, her first lover was not the last person who heard the account of this melancholy accident; but as he remembered, that she had before been seized with a violent paroxysm lethargy, he flattered himself that her late misfortune might possibly be produced by the same cause. This opinion not only alleviated his sorrow, but induced him to bribe the grave-digger, by whose assistance, he raised her from the tomb, and conveyed her to a proper chamber, where, by the use of all the expedients he could possibly imagine, he happily restored her to life. The lady, probably, was in no small consternation, when she found herself in a strange house, saw her darling lover sitting by her bed, and heard the detail of all that had befallen her. during her lethargic paroxysm; it was no hard task to make her entertain a grateful sense of the obligation she lay under to her deliverer. The love she had borne him, proved a moving and pathetic orator in his behalf, so that when she was perfectly recovered, she justly concluded, that her iife belonged to him who had preserved it; and to convince him of her affection, went along with him to England, where they lived for several years, superlatively happy in all the tender endearments of mutual love. About ten years after, they went to Paris, where they lived without any care to conceal themselves, because they imagined that nobody would ever suspect what had happened; but fortune is too often an implacable enemy to the most sincere and rapturous love, the collector unluckily met his wife in a public walk, when the sight of her well known person made such an impression on his mind, that the persuasion of her death could not efface it. For this reason, he not only accosted her, but notwithing the discourse she used in order to impose upon him, parted from her, fully persuaded that she was the very woman to whom he had been married, and for whose death he had gone into mourning. As the whimsical nature of this event clothed the lady with a set of charms, which the collector never before imagined her to be mistress of, he not only discovered her apartments at Paris, in spite of all the precautions she had taken to conceal herself, but also claimed her as his spouse before the court authorised to decide in similar cases. In vain did the lover insist upon the right he had to her, resulting from the care he had taken of her-to no purpose did he represent, that, without the measures taken by himself, the lady would have been rotting in the grave-that his adversary had renounced all claim to her by ordering her to be interred that he might be justly arraigned as a murderer, for not using the precautions necessary to ascertain her death, and a thousand other reasons suggested by love, which is always ingenious when it is sincere. But perceiving that the court was not likely to prove favourable to him, he resolved not to stay for its decision, and, accordingly made his escape, along with the lady, to a foreign climate, where their love continued sacred and entire, till death conveyed them to those happy regions, where love knows no end, and is confined within no limits.

BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY.

BY THOMAS MILLER.

THE throstle, scarcely surpassed by any other bird excepting the nightingale, pours forth his full wealth of song in every varied form, upheaving his parded breast, and looking out upon the yet bare landscape with bright restless eyes.

We hear him