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 more 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, 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 surry 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 amendinent 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 liberties.

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 wives 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 Rooms].--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 26 to 20 freeholders.

Auction Mart.The Lord Mayor, 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 horseseight masons-foreman mason-eight carpenters-foreman carpenter-The foreman and the clerk of the works-The builder, Alexander Copland, Esq.-The archiMr. Mellish observed, that it was not a tect, Mr John Walters-the model of the proper compliment to the Spanish people, to intended building, borne on the shoulders of interfere in their own internal arrangement, artificers-city marshal, on horseback-The and recommended that it be withdrawn. He proprietors―The secretary-The 12 directors thought that as the meeting was so thin, it-The lord mayor-aldermen-sheriffswould be better to adjourn, and call another meeting, which might be more numerously attended, if duly advertised.

Some difficulty was started to adopting this

resolution.

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

The freeholders of Middlesex have been

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 advan ced, 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 ladies 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 iron-master, arrived at Ulverston, in a sloop, supported on the right and left by the county from his foundery, at Braidley, in Wales, and city members, the aldermen and the together with an iron tomb and pyramid, with directors. A variety of patriotic toasts were iron letters, gilt, for the inscription, which given, and several an logous to the occasion, he had composed previous to his death. The anong which was distinguished the following: whole of them was removed to his house, ola May an Auction Mart be established in Castle Head. The rock, in which the pile France, and Buonaparte be knocked down is to be placed, fronts the house, and is comfor the first lot.” pletely 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 fivest fields of corn, where a few years since there were only peat and moss.

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 workinen, as the ground in that part was of a very dense quality; and unfortunately the workinen 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 stations the Romans had when in this country.

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 back-
bone was discovered, of an amazing size, be-
ing in diameter nine inches and a quarter
by four and a half deep.
There is no per-
pendicular 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 matine
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 Respect paid to the Lord's Day, by the ornaments, such as beads, buckles, and Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. - A broaches in amber, wood, and gold; one of short time since, about a dozen coopers which, for its elegance and appropriate form, employed under government, in the victual- is at once a proof of the nobility of the. ing-office at Deptford, were discharged on ac- person for whoin the barrow was raised, and count of their conscientious objections to the elegance of the arts at the period of the working on the Lord's day. A respectful ap. interment, about 3000 years from the present plication was made to the Lords of the Admi-period. The shape of this curious article is ralty; by whom the men were restored to their places.

conical, and the exact form of the barrow
itself, which it was inost probably intended.
to figure. Conceive a piece of wood, imbri-
cated 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. 117,574; 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, 10 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, 10,065; Cowell, 9.728; Eves, 8, 103.

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 (281b.) 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 gentlemen Phenomenon. While some gentlemen of resident in different parts of England, in Plymouth were lately walking on the Hoc, order to obtain informations of the sales and curiosity led them to see a remarkable vein of prices at the several wool-fairs lately held, fine sand, which has been discovered in the being prevented attending by indisposition, midst of the immense body of limestone rock communicated to the farmers present the which composes that eminence; the sand result of his inquiries, through the medium is at least above 50 feet above high water of Mr. Jonathan. Passingham, a neighbour mark, and surrounded by the stone. Opeing farmer, purporting, as we understand,

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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 chair-important branch of our commerce, which man, begged, before the company returned had been carried on hitherto on a confined again to the market-house, to express his and imperfect scale. For the future, it is decided disapprobation of the conduct of to be hoped, that no encouragement will be those individuals, whose mistaken policy, it given to any of those who would wish to longer persevered in, would defeat the obviolate its rules, and, contrary to the spirit of jects 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

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

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 448.; and the Dorsets 30s. to 423. 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 :

From the United States
From Portugal

From the British Colonies

Bags 143,756

11,352 41,136

197,344

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 attend ed 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

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 seedsman, his discovery of the means of preventing the of Alnwick, a reward of five guineas, for curl in potatoes; they purchased a quanuity of potatoes, treated according to his plau, which they have distributed in the outhern districts of England, to make so useful a discovery process, the potatoes intended for seed are set more generally known. By Mr. Crozer's 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 grew till March, in which month I, a third time, took up my plants, and divided them into two 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 thou sand 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 half a bushel of corn in the whole produce of this not number the grains; but there was better than 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 cidental to farning ?"

Manchester Agricultural Society. At the have elapsed since the undertaking comannual meeting of the Manchester Agricultu-menced, and there is now completed a solid ral Society, on the 1st of August, the fol- mole, twelve feet above high-water mark, lowing premiums were adjudged:-To F. D. | resting on a broad foundation, and projecting Astley, esq. of Dunkinfield, for planting upwards of 1000 feet into the sea. At the 51,000 trees, a silver medal; to John Ash foot of the rocky mound, upon which the worth, of Turton, for floating the greatest Martello tower stands, eastward of Howth quantity of land, a silver cop, value seven town, the Pier commences, and continues in guineas; to Joseph Ridgway, of Horwich, a direction pointing to the east end of Ireland's for covering the greatest quantity of land with Eye; between which and the extremity of good compost, a silver cup, value five gui- the Pier, will be left a passage of about 500 neas; to John Isherwood, esq of Marple, yards, for the admission of vessels into the for the neatest farm, a silver medal; to Tho- harbour, which will be thus formed between mas Remer, of Hill Top, for raising the the Baldoyle shore and the new-made mole. greatest quantity of peat compost, a silver cup, A flag-staff is now fixed at the distance to value seven guineas; to Mary Hall, of which it is intended to carry the Pier, about Daresbury, for twenty-six years servitude, 1000 feet farther. A mere inspection of this cash, five guineas; to Ralph Armstrong, of useful work is sufficien to shew its advantaDean Row, for draining the greatest quantity ges; the want of a port on our eastern shore, of land with stone, a silver cup, value seven from Belfast to Waterford, into which vessels guineas; and to Croxton Johnstone, rector in distress could run at low water is admitted of Wilmslow, for inventing a machine to by all persons conversant with the Irish chansow wheat, a silver cup, value seven gui- nel. 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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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. Aud 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 tree, 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 mine 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 yew 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 Aunan falling into the firth of Solway, which let on a lease that expired a few weeks since for £150 per annum, and has been relet by its proprietor, Mr. Nelson, of Liverpool, for £1,500 per annuin.

IRELAND.

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

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 18 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 The contha, or arched recess for the altar, is ornamented with columns, capitals, flutings, mouldings, the mystical 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 ornamentof 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