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for his (pirit, aotirity, intelligenoe, and honour SB a tiadesman, that his sumving friends will venerate the character of Mr. Ackerman, so much as for that genuine kindness of heart, that cordial hospitality, that warm beneficence, and that active philanthropy in which it abounded. In the summer of 1830, Mr. Ackerman trans- ferred to his three younger sons and to Mr. Walton, his principu assistant, the establish- ment which he had founded, and which, by the unremitting labour of forty years, he had brought to its prosperous condition ; the eldest son being already established in Regent-street. He ter- minated his useful and honourable life on the 30th of March, 1834, aged seventy years.
At the close of the Forgrt Me Not, for 1834, are some tributary verses to the memory of Mr. Ackerman : the following are the closing lines : —
Tsste and genius round thee cast Llrint; radiance to tlie last— Till like evening's silent breath. Calm the cenUest tooch of Death I Now in calm equality With the irreat thy relics be. Many a widow's heavenward prayer- Many a daughter of despair- Many a Mose's pale-cheelced son- Tell ox how thy course was run. Friend of every nolde art. Still thou liv'st in many a heart i Shall they o'er thy relies weep I Let the mortal remnants sleep I Earth to earth, and dost to dust— Thon'rt already with the Just. What can claim the spirit's plume > Thon'rt already past the tomb.
The above, though anonymous, is believed to be the production of Mr. Frederick Shoberl, the editor of the volume, than whom none could be more capable of appreciating and recording the virtues of the deceased.
1834, April 30. The Pitt Press, at Cam- bridge, opened with great ceremony by the mar- quess of^ Camden, who printed from a press erected in the hall, a small sheet in Latin, a description of the building, and a eulogv on the statesmen whose name it bears. The Suilding presents a handsome and highly ornamented gothic edifice; the centre is occupied by a tower, which is supported by two wings. Over the entrance, in tue centre, is a lofty and elegant room, for the use of the syndics of the press. The wings furnish store rooms, &c.
1834, April. The Bibliographer's Manual; being an account of rare, curious, and useful hooks, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing ; with bibliographical and critical notices, colla- tions of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have sold in the present century. By Wm. Thomas Lowndes. Fart I. Completed in four vols. 8vo. This work is a useful, if not an in- dispensable addition to the libraries of historians, antiquaries, and bibliographers, and of all who are interested in the literature of their country.*
- Lowndei' British Librarian ; or book collector's guide
to the formation of a library m all branches of titeratmre, science and art, arranged in dosses, with prices, critical nates, referencet, and on inHex of authors and tubjeett. Part I. Feb. 1839. London : Wbittaker and Co.
1634, May 21. Died, Ma. Newcombe, for forty-eight years one of the proprietors of the Stamford Mercury fixui. alderman of that borott^, aged seventy-three years.
1834, May 26. Died, Thomas Edwards, formerly a considerable bookseller at HalifJuk, in Yorkshire. He was the youngest son of Mr. William Edwards, noticed at page 832 ante. In 1784, Mr. Edwards, senior, when sixty-foui years of age, set up his eldest son, James, with a younger brother, John, in business, in Pall- mall, in London, under the firm of Edwards and Sons. Mr. John Edwards died in early life, and the business was conducted for some years by Mr. James Edwards, with great reputation. By success in trade, in about twenty years, he acquired a considerable fortune, and retiring from business, was succeeded by Mr. R. H. Evans, the celebrated book auctioneer. Mr. James Edwards died Jan. 2, I8I6, at Harrow. on-the-Hill,to the regret of his nomerous friends. Mr. Richard Edwards, another brother, was some time a bookseller in Bond-street, London ; but retiring from trade, he obtained an appoint- ment under government, in Minorca. Mr. Thomas Edwards, after his father's death, con- tinued as a bookseller, at Halifax, with high reputation for many years, but lately retirra from business to Southport, where he died. He left a widow and family to lament the loss of a most worthy man.
1834, May. A law was enacted at the Mau- ritas, that required a license previous to the pub- lication of any newspaper or public journal.
1834, June 7. Two splcnaid tea services of silver plate were presented to the proprietor and editor of the Carlisle Journal, by the reformers of East Cumberland. Each of the services con- sist of a tea-pot, sugar basin, cream ewer, and sugar tongs; bearing the following inscription :
Presented,
By the Reformers of East Cumberland,
to
Maroakit Jollic,
One of the Proprietors of the Carlisle Joomal j
The unflinching supporter of
The cause of the People.
June 7> 1834.
Presented,
By the Reformeis of East Comlierland,
to
Jahbs Stbiil,
Editor and Proprietor of the Carlisle Journal,
As a token of their approbation of his exertions
in the cause of the People.
June 7, 1884.
1834, June. Thomas Buckles, a native of
Coventry, a journeyman printer, drowned whilst bathing at Evesham, leaving a wife and three children.
1834, July 7. Died, William Telphord, for many years a worthy and respected joum^- man printer, on the Gloucester Journal. He died suddenly, aged seventy-nine years.
1834, July U. Died, Benjamin Crompton, printer and bookseller, at Bury, in Lancashire, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. Mr. Cromp-
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