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charged with apathy in not attending this meeting in greater numbers, only 46 real freeholders being present; but we have no doubt the great majority of that body thought it unnecessary to come forward, on account of their persuasion that the ministers were acting with that energy and attention towards the Spaniards, which the people of England wished, and therefore needed not to be

Middlesex Meeting-In consequence of a requisition signed by several freeholders of the County, a meeting was held, August 30, at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, to vote certain resolutions in favour of the Spanish cause. The Sheriff having opened the business of the meeting, Major Cartwright said: It was his intention to move certain resolutions, expressive of the sentiments of the freeholders, with respect to the Spanish cause, and also to sub-prompted by similar meetings; it was this mit a petition to parliament, and move an address to his majesty, on the subject of a reform in parliament. He concluded with reading his resolutions, the petition, and the address.

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The first resolution" that for aiding the cause of the Spanish Patriots, the king was entitled to the gratitude of mankind, was passed unanimously; as was also the second, that a people who were ready to fight for their liberties were alone worthy of the alliance of a free nation. "The third resolution, "that to find such allies as the Spanish nation left us little reason to regret the allies we had lost," produced some discussion. On the third being put, Mr. Mellish, M. P. for | the county, observed, that he was sorry to be compelled to make a complaint on the part of the freeholders, that more publicity had not been given to the meeting by the sheriff. He could attribute the thinness of the meeting to no other cause. He happened to be 150 miles from town, and by accident saw it in the papers, and immediately posted up. The Hon. Member suggested an amendment to the resolution, which was adopted and passed. The fourth resolution went to suggest to the people of Spain, that reform in representation, and arming the population, were the only means by which they could secure their liber

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Some difficulty was started to adopting this resolution.

Mr. Mellish observed, that it was not a proper compliment to the Spanish people, to interfere in their own internal arrangement, and recommended that it be withdrawn. He thought that as the meeting was so thin, it would be better to adjourn, and call another meeting, which might be more numerously attended, if duly advertised.

The resolution was negatived-the question of adjournment was then proposed by Mr. Mellish, on the ground that the nieeting ought to be more fully attended, and that the subjects which the mover introduced were distinct from the main object of the meeeing. This produced a long discussion, which at length was terminated by agreeing that the resolutions passed should be published, and another meeting called. Thanks having been voted to the Sheriffs, the meeting adjourned.

The freeholders of Middlesex have been

idea that forcibly struck us in the outset, when the good intentions of Colonel Greville and the gentlemen who acted with him were in some measure frustrated, although we still wish there had been a subscription set afloat for the wires and children of those brave Spaniards who might be killed or wounded in the war. [Vide Panorama, Vol. IV p. 984, for the address and resolutions intended to have been moved at the Argyle Roonis].—But we are at a loss to conceive what a petition to parliament, and an address to his majesty on a reform in parliament, had to do with our assisting the Spaniards; and in a meeting too when the first division consisted only of 21 to 19, and the second of 20 to 20 freeholders.

Auction Mart. The Lord Mavor, attended by the sheriffs and several aldermen, the directors, and a numerous company of proprietors, assembled at the London Tavern, and proceeded from thence, about three o'clock, on Tuesday, September 20, in the following order :-Four streetmen to clear the way-band of music-banner of the city of London-100 labourers and artificers, with various tools and implements-eight bricklayers-foreman bricklayer-eight masons -The first stone; on which was inscribed Auction Mart, drawn by four horses———— eight masons-foreman mason-eight carpenters-foreman carpenter-The foreman and the clerk of the works-The builder, Alexander Copland, Esq.-The architect, Mr John Walters-the model of the intended building, borne on the shoulders of artificers-city marshal, on horseback-The proprietors-The secretary-The 12 directors -The lord mayor-aldermen-sheriffs Constables. When the procession arrived on the ground, it was greeted with the acclamations of the surrounding multitude, and subsequently by an assemblage of several hundred ladies, for whose accommodation seats had been prepared on the scite of the building. Mr. Shuttleworth, the projector, next advanced, and deposited coins of every description that had been issued during the present reign, with medals of distinguished senators, and naval and military heroes. The lord mayor was now presented with the silver trowel, and, at the same moment, the stone, weighing three tons, was slowly lowered, the band striking up God save the King. After the ceremony was concluded, the fadies partook

of a cold collation, and the rest of the compa- Iron Coffin, Tomb, and Pyramid.-Lancasny proceeded to dine at the London Tavern, ter, August. The iron coffin, to hold the rewhere every delicacy of the season was provi-mains of the late Mr. Wilkinson, the great ded. The lord mayor, in the chair, was supported on the right and left by the county and city members, the aldermen and the directors—A variety of patriotic toasts were given, and several analogous to the occasion, among which was distinguished the following: May an Auction Mart be established in France, and Buonaparte be knocked down for the first lot.”

Visit of the Prince of Wales to Louis XVIII.-Friday, August the 19th, the Duke of Cumberland reviewed his own and several other regiments, on Wanstead common. His Royal Highnes the Prince of Wales, and all the royal Dukes, were present, except the Dake of Sussex. It having long been the wish of his Koya Highness the Prince of Wales to pay a visit to the Conte de Lille. (Louis XVIII) this occasion presented the most favourable opportunity of giving to the meeting a due degree of éclat. After the review, the Prince and his royal brothers proceeded to Wanstead House, where they were introduced to his Majesty Louis XVlil. and partook of a breakfast remarkable for the elegance and taste with which it was served up. His Highness the Prince had a long confereace with Louis XVIII. and conversed with hun the whole time in French. The Prince seemed highly picased with the interview.

Royal Family of France.-The Queen of France and Duchess of Augoulême have been at Gossfield, for some time past, where they receive but little company. The meeting between the Duchess and her father-in-law, Monsieur, was one of the most affecting scenes that can possibly be imagined: he had not seen her for nearly 20 years, during which period she had experienced almost every misery : they held each other long in their embraces, but could not speak, and even now -they dare not trust themselves to converse together, but upon common topics. The Duchess's favourite maid of honour is Mademoiselle Clery, daughter of Monsieur Clery, who attended the unfortunate Louis XVI. to the last hour of his life, and who gave the affecting narrative of the transactions in the Temple. The Duchess often employs herself in working embroidery, in which she very much excels: she had worked four beautiful chairs, which were very much admired by her father-in-law; she therefore sent them to London, and had them made up in the best manner possible; and when he came on a visit to London, she had them placed in his dressing-room. This mark of attention was very sensibly felt by her father-in-law, as her mind does not often dwell upon worldly trifles. The interesting Monsieur Clery is now at

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iron-master, arrived at Ulverston, in a sloop, from his foundery, at Braidley, in Wales, together with an iron tomb and pyramid, with iron letters, gilt, for the inscription, which he had composed previous to his death. The whole of them was removed to his house, on Castle Head. The rock, in which the pile is to be placed, fronts the house, and is completely exposed to view.-He has left to Mrs. Wilkinson the celebrated place called Castle Head; great part of which has been recovered from the sea, presenting some of the finest fields of corn, where a few years since there were only peat and moss.

Ashes of Offa.-A curious piece of antiquity has lately been discovered in the churchyard of Hemel Hemstead, in Hertfordshire. In digging a vault for a young lady of the name of Warren, the sexton, when he had excavated the earth about four feet below the surface of the ground, felt his spade to strike against something solid, which, upon inspection, he found was a large wrought stone, which proved to be the lid of a coffin, and under it the coffin entire, which was afterwards taken up in perfect condition; but the bones contained therein, on being exposed to the air, crumbled to dust. On the lid of the coffin is an inscription, partly effaced by time, but still sufficiently legible, decidedly to prove it contained the ashes of the celebrated Offa, King of the Mercians, who rebuilt the Abbey of St. Alban's, and died in the eighth century. The coffin is about 6 feet long, and contains a niche or resting place for the head, and also a groove on each side for the arms, likewise for the legs; it is curiously carved, and altogether unique of the kind. The curate of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Binghanı, has deposited it in a house adjacent to the church-vard, where the curious are flocking daily and hourly to see it, on whom he levies a contribution of one shilling each, for such indalgence. The charch was built in the seventh century. The Watling-street road runs within a mile of this place, and many Roman coins have lately been found in the vicinity particularly while digging for the Grand Junction Canal.

New Canal-At the first meeting of the Tees Navigation Company, held at the Townhall, Stockton, to put in execution the act of parliament for making a navigable cut through the neck of land near Portrach, a committee was chosen for carrying the measure into effect. This when executed, will be of the greatest advantage to the port and neighbourhood of Stockton, as a circutions and dangerous navigation will be entirely avoided, and a facility given to vessels naviga ting the river. A

Roman Antiquities.-Last week, while excavating the extensive reservoir for the Colchester water-works in Balcon-lane, close to the town' walls, the workmen fell in with the remains of some spacious Roman baths, and earthen pipes of a peculiar construction, for the letting in and out of the waters, with a quantity of Roman pottery ware, some of which appear to have been vessels for heating fluids, others that held wines, with specimens of variously formed urus; what were taken up perfect are in the possession of Mr. Dodd, the engineer; but, we are sorrry to state, the greater part was mutilated by the pickaxes of the workmen, as the ground in that part was of a very dense quality; and unfortunately the work men being employed by contract, at so much per yard for excavating, had no disposition to spend the necessary time in digging out with care these rare specimens of antiquity. It is almost unnecessary to add, as it is known by every antiquary, that Colchester was one of the most considerable and principal statious the Romans had when in this country.

Respect paid to the Lord's Day, by the Lords Commissioners of the Admirally. A short time since, about a dozen coopers employed under government, in the victualing-office at Deptford, were discharged on account of their conscientious objections to working on the Lord's day. A respectful ap. plication was made to the Lords of the Admirafty; by whom the men were restored to their places.

of the company thrusting his cane down to ascertain the depth of the stratum of sand, found it struck against some hard body, which, on taking up, proved to be one side of the jaw of some non-descript animal; the teeth, of which there is a double row, are each nearly two inches long, and the jaw about 18 inches, and evidently carnivorous. On searching farther, a joint of the backbone was discovered, of an amazing size, being in diameter nine inches and a quarter by four and a half deep. There is no perpendicular hole for the spine, but three holes pass horizontally through the centre. Several other bones were found near the spot, all of which preclude the idea of its being a marine genus. The above are in possession of a medical gentleman at Plymouth.

Curious Antiquities.-On the 11th, 12th, and 13th of July, Mr. Cannington opened various barrows in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge, under the direction of Sir Richard Hoare, Bart. and with the aid and assistance of A. B. Lambert, Esq., and found a number of curious remains of Celtic ornaments, such as beads, buckles, and broaches in amber, wood, and gold; one of which, for its elegance and appropriate form, is at once a proof of the nobility of the person for whoin the barrow was raised, and the elegance of the arts at the period of the interment, about 3000 years from the present period. The shape of this curious article is conical, and the exact form of the barrow itself, which it was most probably intended to figure. Conceive a piece of wood, imbricated in layers, one over the other, to the summit of the cone, and covered with thin plates of pure gold, and adorned with circles round the middle, and near the bottom, with a triangular festoon about the lower edge, in which are two holes for a thread or wire to

Beer.-Statement of the quantity (in barrels) of strong beer brewed by the twelve principal houses, between the 5th of July, 1807, and the 5th of July, 1808.-Meux and Co. 190,169; Barkley and Perkins, 184,196; Brown and Parry, 131,647; Hanbury and Co. 17,574; Whitbread and Co. 111,485; Combe and Co. 70,561; Good-suspend it. wyn and Co. 70,232; F. Calvert and Co. 68,924; Elliott and Co. 48,669; Biley and Co. 38,030; P. Calvert and Co. 38,002; Taylor and Co. 32,800.-The following is a statement of the quantity (in barrels) of table beer brewed by the first twelve houses in London, from the 5th of July, 1807, to the 5th of July, 1808.-Kirkman, 20,350; Charrington, 20,252; Edmunds, 18,450; Sandford, 16,634; Poullaine, 14,441 ; Satchell, 11,503; Hale, 10,860; Cape, 10,578; Stretton, 10,343; Sandall, 10,066; Cowell, 9.728; Eves, 8,103.

Phenomenon. While some gentlemen of Plymouth were lately walking on the Hoe, Curiosity led them to see a remarkable vein of fine sand, which has been discovered in the midst of the immense body of limestone rock which composes that eminence; the sand is at least above 50 feet above high water mark, and surrounded by the stone. One

Wool Fair.-At Hounslow wool fair, on Monday, the 1st of August, a large concourse of farmers and wool-buyers assembled in the ancient Market-house in Hounslow, and began the opening and inspecting of about 700 tods of wools (28lb.) of the Southdown, Wiltshire, and Dorset breeds of sheep, which had been brought in and pitched for sale by the farmers residing within a circuit of six or seven miles round the town. Sir Joseph Banks, who is the patron of this useful institution, and has usually taken the trouble of corresponding with gentlemenresident in different parts of England, in order to obtain informations of the sales and prices at the several wool-fairs lately, held, being prevented attending by indisposition, communicated to the farmers present the result of his inquiries, through the medium of Mr. Jonathan Passingham, a neighbour ing farmer, purporting, as we understand,

that no wools had been sold, at two or three of the principal fairs, owing to the price previously fixed by the sellers being more than the buyers would give, and that from the few sales which had been made, some decline from the last year's prices must be expected. About half past one near forty sat down together to dinner. When the cloth was withdrawn, Mr. Passingham, the deputy chairman, begged, before the company returned again to the market-house, to express his decided disapprobation of the conduct of those individuals, whose mistaken policy, it longer persevered in, would defeat the objects of and destroy many institutions similar to and older than the present, by the absurd practice of the sellers of wool, after dinner, retiring from the buyers into a private room, and concerting the exact price which every seller present should demand for his wool! For himself he would say, and he could answer for similar sentiments in many of his friends present, that if the price which their judgment (formed on the best information they could obtain of the supply and demand for the article) should lead them shortly to set on the wools, should prove such as the buyers could not come up to, they should endeavour to come down to their offers, which always had been. liberal, and, he trusted, always would be, to farmers who brought their wools to Hounslow fair with the determination to sell.-On returning to the place of sale, and after examining the quality of several loads of wool, which had come in since the morning, the selling begun, and every pound of wool was sold. The Downs from 47s, to 51s., the Wiltshire from 41s. to 44s.; and the Dorsets 36s. to 42s, per load; according to their respective fineness, and the care and neatness of the sheep-owners in washing their flocks.

Cotton. The following is a return of the amount of cotton imported into Liverpool in the year 1807 :

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o'clock the proprietors and many of their friends dined together at the Royal Hotel, in Lord-street, and the day was concluded with the utmost harmony. Among the numerous improvements which have of late been effected in this town, there is none which promises to be of more beneficial tendency. The corn trade forms a most essential and important branch of our commerce, which had been carried on hitherto on a confined and imperfect scale. For the future, it is to be hoped, that no encouragement will be given to any of those who would wish to violate its rules, and, contrary to the spirit of the undertaking, divert the country dealers from that market where both buyers and sellers are placed on a fair and equitable footing.

Potatoes.-The Board of Agriculture have granted Mr. Crozer, nursery and seedsınan, his discovery of the means of preventing the of Alnwick, a reward of five guineas, for curl in potatoes; they purchased a quantity of potatoes, treated according to his plan, which of England, to make so useful a discovery they have distributed in the southern districts more generally known. By Mr. Crozer's process, the potatoes intended for seed are set for food. And the produce from such plants, later and taken up earlier than when intended it is found, have stronger powers of vegetation, and are less liable to disease, than when they are suffered to grow to full maturity. On the same principle, potatoes from cold and bleak parts of the country are not liable to curl.

Produce of Wheat.-The produce of a single grain of wheat, propagated in the garden of the Rev. Dr. Drake, rector of Amersham, Bucks, by Wm. Rebecca, gardener:-"On the 1st day of the red wheat; and in the latter end of SeptemAugust, I sowed, or rather set, a single grain of ber, when the plant had tillered, I took it up, and slipped or divided it into four sets or slips. Those four sets I planted, and they grew and tillered as

well as the first. In the end of November I took them up a second time, and made thirty-six plants or sets. These I again planted, which 143,756 grew till March, in which month 1, a third time, 11,352 took up my plants, and divided them into two 41,136 hundred and fifty-six plants or sets. For the remaining part of the summer, till the month of August, they had nothing done to them, except hoeing the ground clean from weeds, till the corn was ripe. When it was gathered, I had the ears counted, or numbered, and they were three thousand five hundred and eleven; a great part of which proved as good grain as ever grew out of the earth. Many of the ears measured six inches in length, some were middling grain, and some very light and thin.-This was the reason I did not number the grains; but there was better than half a bushel of corn in the whole produce of, this one grain of wheat in one year.-Query, would not this practice (spring-planting) be of great use where the crops miss by various accidents incidental arming?"

New Corn Exchange.-The new corn exchange, in Brunswick-street, Liverpool, was open for the first time on Tuesday, August 2d, and bids fair to render the most important advantages to the trade of that place. At half past ten the stands were all occupied, and the market being well attended by country buyers, business was carried on till one, with a degree of spirit and liberality which gives the most certain pledge of the utility of the undertaking. At three

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Manchester Agricultural Society. At the annual meeting of the Manchester Agricultural Society, on the 1st of August, the fol- | lowing premiums were adjudged:-To F. D. Astley, esq. of Dunkiufield, for planting $1,000 trees, a silver medal, to John Ashworth, of Turton, for floating the greatest quantity of land, a silver cup, value seven guineas; to Joseph Ridgway, of Horwich, for covering the greatest quantity of land with good compost, a silver cup, value five guineas; to Join Isherwood, esq. of Marple, for the neatest farm, a silver medal; to Thomas Remer, of Hill Top, for raising the greatest quantity of peat compost, a silver cup, value seven guineas; to Mary Hall, of Daresbury, for twenty-six years scrvitude, cash, five guineas; to Ralph Armstrong, of Dean Row, for draining the greatest quantity of land with stone, a silver cup, value seven guineas; and to Croxton Johnstone, rector of Wilmslow, for inventing a machine to sow wheat, a silver cup, value seven gui

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Ancient Yew Trees.-There are now growing within 300 yards of the old Gothic ruins of Fountain's Abbey, three miles from Rippon, in Yorkshire, seven very large yew trees, generally called the seven sisters, whose exact ages cannot be accurately learned, though it has been handed down from father to son that these seven yews were standing in the year. 1088. And it is said, that when the great Fountain's Abbey was building, which is 700 feet long, and was finished in 1283, the masons used to work their stones, during the hot summers, under the shade of these trees. The circumference of the seven sisters, when measured by a curious traveller; were of the following sizes:-The smallest treey round its body, five yards twelve inches, four others are from five yards and a half to seven yards and a half; the sixth is nine yards and a half; and the seventh is eleven yards and nineteen inches in circumference, being two yards and ten inches larger than the great vew tree now growing in the churchyard at Gresford, in North Wales, which is nine yards nine inches. These trees are the largest and oldest growing in the British dominions.

SCOTLAND.

Salmon Fishery: Increased Value. Among the striking instances of great increase in rents, is that of the salmon fishery, of that part of the river Annan falling into the firth of Solway, which let on a lease that expired a few weeks since for £150 per aunum, and has been relet by its proprietor, Mr. Nelson, of Liverpool, for £1,500 per

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New Pier-Dublin, Aug. 27. The new Pier at flowth is carried on with extraordinary expedition; scarcely eighteen months

have elapsed since the undertaking commenced, and there is now completed a solid mole, twelve feet above high-water mark, resting on a broad foundation, and projecting upwards of 1000 feet into the sea. At the foot of the rocky mound, upon which the Martello tower stands, eastward of Howth town, the Pier commences, and continues in a direction pointing to the east end of Ireland's Eye; between which and the extremity of the Pier, will be left a passage of about 500 yards, for the admission of vessels into the harbour, which will be thus formed between the Baldoyle shore and the new-made mole. A flag-staff is now fixed at the distance to which it is intended to carry the Pier, about 1000 feet farther. A mere inspection of th's useful work is sufficien to shew its advanta ges; the want of a port on our eastern shore, from Belfast to Waterford, into which vessels in distress could run at low water is admitted by all persons conversant with the Irish channel. This pier incloses exactly such a place of shelter, and also offers a convenient lying on its eastern side for vessels prevented by westerly winds from entering the harbour of Dublin: an advantage of no slight moment to the trade of this city.

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Consecration of the North Chapel. Cork, August 26. On Monday, August 22, "the beautiful chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, called the North Chaple, was dedicated with a solemnity unexampled in these islands. This chapel consists of a nave and side aisles, with an altar at the top of each, together with a transept, which brings the chapel into the form of a cross. There are spacious galleries over the side aisles, but not over the transept, or near the altars. The general style of this structure is of the Gothic order, the windows of the upper story being highly pointed, and those of the lower story, with the doors, consisting of 8 arches,~ in the trefoil form, it is supported by cluster columns, painted to represent jasper and pophyry, with gilt bands. The inside length of the nave is 109 feet; its breadth, including the aisles, 62 feet; length of the transept 90 feet; height of the nave 42 feet contha, or arched recess for the altar, is ornamented with columns, capitals, Autings, mouldings, the nystical dove, &c.; the whole being gilt, silvered, or painted, to represent lapis lazuli, or other precious marbles. The altar-piece, by an eminent Roman master, represents the Madonna with the infant Saviour, and angels, in various attitudes, adoring. The altar, with its wings for supporting the candlesticks, is 15 feet long, it is closed by an antipendium, representing the blessed Sacrament, with surrounding angels. But the chief ornament of the sacred place (being unquestionably the first thing of its kind in Ireland) is the tabernacle upon the altar. It is, in the whole, 11 feet

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