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THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD. . _ 11'i3 well known that by the above phrase the eloquent Orator meant to designate a friend of his, Author of the following WORKS, and of many others well known to the Public and to the Scholastic World; Works, whose successive publicadoo during the last •Chirty-fuur Years, have so eminendy tended to produce :%lt astonishing march of Intellect which characterizes the Veitnt Age. The BOOKS announced beneath, whose :nortance is in the inverse ratio of their bulk, and their i:pr,t,:nding appearance, are part of a NEW SERIES, ::sulting at once from long experience, and from improve ments founded on improvements. I. WHY AND BECAUSE, In popular illustration of subjects of common experience, Ind the first elements of Science. By the Rev. DAVID BLAIR. Price One Shilling, or Thirteen to the Dozen. 11. A FAMILIAR VOCABULARY, Or RATIONAL SPICLLING.BOOK of the &len ti6c and Technical Words which occur in the lelensentary Books,ased in Schools. By the Rev. 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No. 80, 51ary.le-bone.lane, Oxford -street, in consequence of that connexions in Oporto and Bourdcaux, are enabled to supply the public with WINES of the finest quality at the wholesale prices. For the genuineness and superior quality of their Wines and Spirits, they are autho rised to give reference to the Editors of the Monad, Gazelle of Practical Medicine, who have examined their stock. They have pleasure in laying the following, Priced List of their Wines, &c. before the public : PRICED LIST OF WINES. per doe. per doe. Old Port, from the wood, Ditto, Laßue and in bottles ... 265. to 30 Chateau 51srgeau 63a. to 72 Ditto, 2 years in bottle 36 Barest 56 Ditto, 3 years in bottle 42 Sauterne ........ 66 Ditto, 5 years in bottle, I Tcneriffe 365. to 49 and upwards .. 435. &54 I Vidonia ... 42 Sherry, brown ... 30s. to 42 Miceli... 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Whose at the Docks, in Pipes, Hogsheads, and Quarter emir, segulated by the Loudon Price Current. Saperior Herefordshire 'Perry and Cyder.—Barclay's Botticd Stout, and Scotch Ales, trout 7s. to As. ict The Marsala Wine is a very wholesome, pleasant light Wine for Summer, and for dyspeptic persons, superior to Sherry. TO THE AFFLICTED WITH RUPTURE. U WRIGHT, Self-Adjusting Truss, and Sur- LAG gical Instrument Maker, 32, London-Road, South wark, Begs have to announce to the Public and Medical Gentlemen, that he manufactures Trusses upon an Irn rmcd Principle, for those afflicted with Hernia. It is difficult to explain the nature with which some Nouns are kept from descending, and very frequently to almost bid defiance to every kind of Trues to retain the I:::pture. H. W. flatters himself, from the number of years' ex wince, to have a competent knowledge in eecuring the :nost obstinate Cases of Ruptures with which persons have teen afflicted a number of years. H. W. manufactures a variety of Trusses to the construc tion of the Body, and has never had any Case of Hernia without being able to reduce it to its relative situation, t owever laborious and trying the occupation of the person sfflicted. N.B. Manufactures the Improved Domestic instrument, .y which Costiveness may be instantly removed. and its I . ..z:serous consequences prevented, by the application of %Vann Water only : it is quite simple in its cons•ruct;on, also portable. Surgical Instruments of every description warranted of best manufacture. Merchants and Captains supplied for Exportation. INsTlTt — ftws, No. fI2, Kinpland-road, Shorodit.:h, London ; .Zor lie safe tv.l effectual CURE of DEAFNI , R, NOIRES in NERD. PURULENT and CURITORSI DILI:BARGES of .he Eau, and NEnvous commt.fersys,—We carnesily tall the averti..n t our readers to the above celebrated Esiablisl.ment, which. WC presume, must prove highly gratifying and benefit to the afflicted. The Nervous and Debilitated Invalid labour :•l under Lowness of Spirits, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Fearfal Imaginations, Palpi.ation of the Hettrt, Trctuttlia,, ; ttet Limbs, Painful Sensations rt. the Stomach an , ' flow: Is. laipaired Memory. Debility, whether eor stientional. or ter atly !Huss, Weakness of Sight, Flatukitcv, Nausea. or &slily Decay, or tlte whole tribe of Neivutts Arecei..ne, la many instances render life truly rrisrrable, we are appy to le:,rn, are very 'met ssfolly treated, wi line. ;I:e I:.it injury to the most delicate ,11: many rersons ? . ...'.aced to a good state of licaltb have hanlly proved. the atiliet.-ti with any defects of Hcarirg and D;reases i the tar tray also obtain the most esseniii.l benefit; and for the satisfaction of pau:nts sivailsrly afflicted, we fed t:tteh pleat:tun to select trom among many other curt., the :t o :lowing thr.e extraordinary ones :—A Patient residing sub a clergyman in Surrey, who had been deaf 31 years. t : ith much nervous debility, has been restored to hearing, tr..: best delights of society, aril a perfect state of health A Gentleman of fortune, near Rending. deaf ten years, per. t.aittly restored And an Invalid, in Whitechapel. who had taitt. deaf fifteen years, attended with purnient discharges teeth both tam and most distressin g n o i ses i o the head, and tebditated • :tie of health, has I:anpily been perfectly rem. voted. Nuovtroas testimonials e; cures erected on persons ..t tae bights. respectability, resitiMg in various parts of Landon aril the country, may be seen. The treatment does tatitcasion he least pain o, - inconvenience ; and atom the .sat RURINL of persons recently restored, we strongly ye tsturrenti t it moat obstinate or long-standing cases, !and uve who nom neglect or unskilful treatment have been feemed incurable, no, to despair of obtaining relief.—The `.:stge is mttierate, and the hours of attend a n ce , d a ily, f r om F.leven to S:x in the evening, Sundays excepted. Persons r , ll4 llng in the country, who cannot conveniently attend at InstitutL,7l, 00 stating .heir cases by letter, post paid, trein.ing the usual fee. %ill Itave suitable medicines and ad .., mined , t ely forwarded. N°. 13,851: LITERATURE. AMELIORATION OF IRELAND. Prom a Letter to ones 1W new before Par liament, for Regulating the Appointment of Liar• Womb and Depay Lieutenants for Comities in Ireland. 1 have read over Lord Melbourne's bill " for regulating the appointment of Lieutenants of Counties in Ireland," and also the Debate in the House of Lords on that subject. The whole measure affords me peculiar satisfaction, as 1 have been for years its humble but untiring advocate, and yea may besmeared that; until it is in opera tion, no Government can effect a thorough revi sion of &elfish Magistracy, or remedy the de fects of the present organisation of the constabu lary force at their disposal. • - Under any circumstances, the depriving persons already selected by the Crown, of their commis sions, becomes an invidious task ; but in the presen t state of Ireland (let the ability and impartiality of the executive be ever so great) no measure is more likely to create local—if not general—discontent. The best course which could be taken to avoid those embarrassing effects, is through the pro posed bill; but to render that measure as popular and as perfect as can be reasonably expected, the following suggestions may be useful : Let Lord Melbourne declare, from his place in the House of Lords, that the executive will consi der residence an indispenaible requisite for each Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenant ; and further, that the magistrates to be recommenced by them shall be limited in number, according to the popu lation and the extent of each Petty Sessions District. • The only alternatives for the future Government of Ireland and upon which England must speedily decide re, on the one hand the establishment of a perfect unity in their Executives as well as in their Legislature, and on the other—separation. The former is obviously not merely the best for.- both countries, but the only one upon which they can permanently rest with any degree of security to either. To give it effect, an Irish Department, distinct from that of the Home Office, must be substituted for that of the Lord Lieutenancy—over that De partment a Cabinet Minister should preside, and be should be aided by two Under-Secretaries (as in the Treasury) having seats in Parliament, and one permanent Secretary out of Parlioruent; who should be constantly resident in Ireland : the Parliamentary Secretaries being so alternately. By such an arrangement as this the Irish Public will be ensured an efficient Executive, having three of its members responsible in their places in Parlia ment, two of them at all times resident in Ireland, and four diving the noses. This done, all the offices connected with the present establishment, including that of Irish Privy Counsellor, should be abolished. I have long considered that the unfortunate state of Ireland to be mainly attributable to the defec tive construction of its Executive Government, which, in my humble judgment, is the worst that could be devised. Those who have read with at tention the correspondence between Lord Anglesey and the Duke of Wellington in 1828, need no further evidence ; by that alone, the reflecting portion of the Irish Community must have been convinced that we were governed, not directly by those with whom we came into contact, but, as it were, by the third or fourth hand—the Lord Lieu tenant's Secretary—the Lotd Lieutenant—the Home Alinistet —the Premier—and constitution ally speaking, the Sing over them all : the three latter being ignorant of the local wants and wishes of the people : the two former surrounded by the favoured fey; (called the Castle-party of the day) to whom they may have been (through intrigue on this side of the water) consigued, and being stran gers to the country, they are necessarily guided by the information and advice received from that pa, ticular circle. It is scarcely credible that since the commencement of English rule in Ireland, from 1172 to 1 83! —just 659 years—we nave hod no less than 396° Guverunrs, exo.lusive of those who held t'!e , reins hem 1677 to 1711. of which 1 lave nu accouot by we at the nre.ent moment.— To these e e '.ave to add our Chief Secreta:ies. &c. and during the same time, be it observed, England ::as been rt.led by 30 Sovereigns and one Lord Protector.t If the change I now propose bad taken effect (when it °ugh() at the union, Ireland WOLAI have lieu! long ,kee incorporated with England. A nicre rarebit:cut union could nut have continuer 30 years, and the statesmen of this couutry would not 1 fear, generalls speaking, they are. most unhappily fo England Ps Weil as Ireland— uttv ly unacquainted with the machinery a our Society se well as our condition, and consequently depentlent ou informatioa too frequently ;.;iven for • This give* an average of one ye .r. evet: months, and nineteen da,, tnr cash Vice-regal rogn. f Sir Henry Parnell. io his very able work on Fi: nncial Hefono, p. 1 1 .02 tausmirp2sses ori. ion The Ca. thol:c g a cing hem setth.d. thus is rot the least ex cuse for keeping up tits office of Lord Lieutenant et' l r ,1 31;4 1. What ;n.s been said of other vic2roys is Italy applicable to ti,a; Mae : L seldom happens that viceroys can et.treise Oh!: (barge widi advantage to the Country over which they t:re itto rotary ttoveicigns. The ins‘abtli yor tht•ir ruin, tntd, too fiuently. tit.. (It MIT to improve :hcir oat) tontine: tend witatiraw them from any att.mtinn to their ducts be. vood what is necessary to keep all quiet. All mcasnres t materially to ameliorations ti.ust be rate:ll3,dt slow ; the unpopularity which attaches to all wholesome innoca• Lions falls on the Viceroy who introduces them ; while the merit w'dich follows from them is given to his successors.— On the whole, it is genet ally fortunate when a viceroy is con. tented to be merely passive in his office, and is negatively a clog on the improvement of the state. The situation being frreptentiv given to some nobleman embarrassed with debts. or overwhilmed with a large family to numerous depend a nt s , it has often happened that be has considered the country over which he is the Ruler, let's as a country to be fostered and rendered happy than as It mine from which to extract tor himself and his followers within the shortest possible space of time, the greatest possible quantity of wealth.' " ~ bt TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1831. interested purposes, and scarcely over delivered with that candour and singleness of purpose which should alone stamp its value. PURLAND ON THE TEETH. A few days ago, we briefly noticed a short trea• the by Mr. Purland of Long Acre, containing practical directions for preserving the teeth. Since that time, we have critically eNaniined Mr. Pur land's book, and find that it merits the atten tion of all dames— fathers and mothers more espe cially--as adapted to the common sense 0$ every reader, end 'altogether free from theee'despicable mystification', and technical absurdities, which abound the namaions pretenders .to this de-. licate bra= surgery. Einpiricinn among pseudo dentists has been carried to such a pitch, that a really useful book, now and then, from a &ni -1 end-bred-dentist like Purland, becomes important, I were it only to call back the victims of irreguictr practitioners to a simple and efficacious means of working their own cure. Purland, on the present occasion, has given an opportunity to his friends— that is, the public —" of learning the philosophy of the teeth, and of benefitting by an acquaintance with their structure and use." We cannot afford room to e:arac, largely from the work before us; nor would Mr. Purland, perhaps, thank ns for doing so. Fo- the Genet of our readers, however, and in anppport of our recommendation of the work under notice, we take leave to transfer to our columns Mr. Pu. land's general rules for cleansing the teeth, and keeping them free from tartareous ,incrustation : On Tieing, wash the mouth with spring water, (cold in summer, lukewarm in wither.) Afterwards, use a mode r.ttd y soft brush, cold water, and a small quantity of powder, to clean the teeth and gums ; observing to move the mush in a perpendicular direction, that the hair may pass between the teeth, and remove any small particle of food, that may have insinuated itself, and, which if not removed, would upon deeemposiden, cause a roughness of the tooth, accumulation of tartar, and eventually, decay, and loss of teeth. T:te mouth should also be rinsed with water after meals. Picking the teeth should be avoided if possible, but If dam, a quill is the best tomb-pick ; a continued use of gold, or silver, will injure the enamel Pins should always be wide& Sonnies, of A. Teeth.—When the teeth, co, a tooth, that is sound, is sore, the guru should be scarilled, and " the astringent tincture" used i this done immediately, will re move the inconvesiescs. Testis with This rwasonsl._Some teeth are very suscep tible, in consequence of the mous state oP the etnasel, which being very thin. is liable to auk- In inch cams, ems should be taken, of biting any very bard sub- stamen Las of ribs Arremei.--Ilensetinses tbs enamel disappears from the external Name DIM. indescs, as ifilied &mess... For this disease, which cannot be accounted for, them is neither preventive nor cure known. Gum-boils, Abscesses, and Facresenues.--It frequently happens where the teeth have been neglected, er hom con stitution': diseases, gumboils, or excrescences, are gene rated ; in such eases, it is necessary to open them with a lancet, washing the mouth with hot watber to cause a co pious discharge. For boils, the part should be kept open for a day or two that a new skin may form on its internal surface, and thereby prevent a recurrence of the disease. Sponginess of the gums may be caused by tartareous in crustetion, or cold; scarifying and cleansing ought to be re sorted to. The tame treatment applies to ulceration of the gums where the teeth becotr.e denuded ; the use of " The Astringent Tincture" will facilitate a cure. Tenderness or the gums may be cured, by gargling the mouth with equal parts of distilled vinegar, and campbo. rated :lAA's of wine diluted. In conclusion, it is essential, that, in order to preserve the teeth inn sound state, they must be kept perfectly clean, cleanliness being the only antidote to disease ;and it is ne• cessal y for those who have hitherto neglected so to do. first to have them cleansed by a professional gentleman, and af terwaids use a dentifrice, especially provided for them. An eminent practitioner, in writing on this sub ject, says—" When it is known, that scaling, and stopping the teeth, scarifying the gums, and ordi nary attention to cleanliness, will, in general pre vent those evils, the dentist will be in greater re quisition, and the public tt ill experience less pain." To prove the inde;tendence, the liberality, and freedom from jealousy of Mr. Pmland, we need only add, that far from depreciating the abilities and labou s of other practitioners and writers, he brings to the aid of his illustrations and arguments, nassages from the treatises of the celebrated Clark, Fuller, aad Murphy. We catinoi held mar velling, at the same time, that hz? has given nu in stances of the easy and successful proctiee of Grey or of Gordon—the last of whom, rieticitlarly, has afforded proofs, to our personal knowleily!, of emi nent skill, and tenderness in his operatimia. FRICTION AND COLD WASHING.—An in attention to the condition of the surface of tie body is a fruitful sumce of stomach ailment; mid one Of the Principles upon wliicii exercise proves bene ficial z o the dyspeptic is, Cult of its tendency to setre the excretions from the skin in good condit.ion. Fricti o n or tae surface ought to a enjoined as oae of the most useful remedies for indigestion. Thi s should be had recourse to every morning, imine,- dia,ely on rising from bed t nud with it should be combined a sort of shower bath by n sponge. I have not been so satisfied, in my own case, with any sin gle article of preventive manageinent as the one I now refer to. It is preventive both of stomach derangement and that of inordiaate saace~ttii laity to cold which is usually a concomitant of stomas,, weakness ; and 1 t rive no hesitation in say it ought to be employed by nll whose nerves and digestive inane are in any degree disposed t o b e out of order. Of cold, since I have adopted the practice, I am comparatively careless, and my di gestive energies arcrimproved, to say the least, in an equal proportion. It is a practice in my m i n d , far superior to the plunging in the cold Unwins on li:digestion. PRICE SEVENPENCE. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY. July has sustained pretty well this year its proper and legitimate character of a summer month. The nights, until of late, hare not, indeed, been very warm ; but an alteration in that respect has now taken place, and vegetation con. dandy rejoices in a nightly temperature that makes ut throw aside the counterpane and the blanket. The charter of St. Swithin has this year been forfeited, for, although it rained ea the Saint's anniversary, yet so far have we been from experiencing forty exaseutive days showers, more or less, heavy and lasting, that a large portion of the time which has already elepeed has been dry, and unmoistened by a single drop of rain. /tape have however, at va rlets times sad pima, during the weeks course ' of the month, ocenered storms of tlsueder and IWiming u; ; a 7 various in their degrees of intensity in var iou s q accompanied in atom gots by destructive , hail or violent rain, in oases by toodwate or IMO sprinkling showers. In the southern counties, and the ally districts of the king dom, the wheat harvest has now pretty generally com menced ; partial beginnings took place ten days ago, or mom, but now the week is more fully entered upon. It is mud at this period to hazard some conjecture as to the probable amount of the wheat crop, in which all are more or less interested, and so many depend either dimly or indirectly for maintenance and support. Indeed, it is a subject on which almost every one feels gratified to form a judgment. The pedestrian, the horseman, the traveller in gig or posuchaise, the outside or inside passenger in a stage coacb—nay, the inhabitant of the city, who takes his evening walk round its outskirts, and peeps over the first gate beyond its suburbs—all feel qualified to speak of the character of the wheat crop. Yet in truth it is a question an which, from the multiplicity and variety of the premises, it is very difficult to arrive at a fair conclusion. The diffi culty of forming any estimate at all approaching to truth, respecting the produce of the ensuing harvest, is this year enhanced, as it has been for several preceding ones, by the varied qualities of the crops, which, particularly wheat, have been more than usually affected by the accidents of soil, situation, and exposure. The few remarks which, in corn. playa wish our customary duty, we may venture to make on this complicated subject, will rather be directed to an enumeration of some of the circumstances which may be supposed to influence the productiveness of our crops, than to attempt to calculate the exact amount of this influence, fully aware that this can only be comedy ascertained by time, and the flail and the bushel. One observation may be pranised—that prindple which, on the eve of each reenniog harvest, disposes the public mind to magnify overt' favourable circumstance, and to diminish or overlook those of an opposite tendency, seems this year as usual, to be in full operation. In accordance with this ' principle our wheat crop Is ptunouneed to be most abundant ; and in some of our fe the districts it probably is good. The strong deep soils carry a fine even head of wheat; the ears are good, and the straw stiff, and for the most pan upright. There is but little mildew or rot; but, on the other band, the plant, when examined, is by no means in general full on the ground ; and, wherever coldness and wetness of soil have prevailed, there it Is very thin indeed, however fair it may look on a cursory ion. The defect is not seen by the nun who stands at the gate, or looks over the hedge, or rides or drives along the turnpike-road; but the farmer knows it, and complains of it, in several of the western and midland counties, in the North of England, and in the cane lands of Scotland. In the rich sands in the Jeep yet mallow Alluvia/ or diluvial soils of the yelloye i d there the wheat , as is almost always the cue, is fine ; it is Indifferently good on the better loams of the uplands; but on our light, thin. chalk, downy tracts, which, under our improved system of husbandry, frequently yield a good s roduce, there is every grade of mediocrity and inferiority except total failure. The redeeming rim stinigellrhablet t pervades*. *tole of our wheat crop Is the ids ' senee of any very decided cases of blightor mildew. The ears are certainly Daum filled than they were last year, with fewer empty capsules, or seism, m they are provincially termed in the southern roosters. From them ;itemises aa abundant crop will be inferred by any. The rhyming pro verb of former days tells us that 44 When the clay doth feed the sand, Then it is merry in old Ragland; But when the sand doth feed the clay, Then old England cries ' Well-a-day " The clay this year undoubtedly bears the bell; bat thee h must be remembered that, by the aid of live steak and artificial grasses, and green crops, the culture of wheat has been extended over an immense user of light uplink and that perhaps not less than three-fifths of our wisest is now grown on soils which, in the days of the prows* our ancestors would never have dared to sow it. If hems par' ' mina could be relied on they would seem to lead to a can elusion that our wheat crops will not exceed, or hardly at. taro * to, an average produce. The barley is neatly as variable as the wheat ; in thin weak Polls it is but an in. different crop ; scarce better than in some of the middling ones, where adverse circumstances have affected it; but in some of the fertile and weal-managed districts; it is heavy and well-eared. Oats, for the most part, promise to yield well; yet beans and peas have been so much attacked by the insects which prey on their juices as to present in many places a melancholy appearance, and can be but partially productive. Notwithstanding the flattering prospect with which the turnip season commenced, it has not continued with uninterrupted success. The tankards, and Swedes, I which were sown early, have been hoctl out, and wear in general a flourishing countenance; although, unless under the stimulus of rich soil, or a profusion of manure, they have not grown so vigorously as In some years, checked perhaps by the intervention of chilly nights. taut the main sowing, of turnips on harsh dry soils, of middling quality, have made little progress, although they came up well at first. In some situations the drought has been too potent for them, and. on hot dry chalks they have absolutely withered away; in other places they have been overtaken, when just passing out of the ground, by hasty tinting thunder showers—one of the most fatal accide:sts that can happen to the turnip plant in its infant state; for, after being thus enveloped in fluid mud, it is a long time, if ever, before it can struggle into growth and vigour again. Favourable circumstances of soil and situation of course give happier results, but on the whole the main crop of tur. nips is still placed under circumstances of hazard and puce. riousncas. Its growth on middling soils has been more blow and feeble than usual; luckily the fly has not been pea. sent. at least in very few instances. The accounts front iha hop districts arc hardly so favourable as they were, com plaints 'wing made that the mould increases ; but, however this disease may partially prevail, there are several quarters which are quite free from it, and where the general appear. ante of the plantations is promising and thriving. The Guru Market, as might be expected on the eve of a harvest not very unpromising, is dull, and prices have declined in some degree. The Meat Market has been rather Hat during the month, but there seem now symptoms of a re-action. The variation at present is not likely to be great. There has been a e.maidetable demand for sheep in the rations fairs that have lately occurred, and they have sold at :id vanceel prices : wethers and wether lambs have been much in re. quest, and, although ewes have not been so much inquited, fur, yet they have in many instances been di.pes:d of on terms-which leave no cause for complaint. Wool is at pre , sent Bat, although prices have not very materially declined. I The mutability of fashion seems to have lowered the 'th rive value of teg wool, but an expectation prevails that in the course of some months an advance ou all qualities will I take place. In the intersection formed by Paul's Chain, God litnan-street, and Carter-lane, St. Paul's, there is now a steam-engine of ten horse-power daily working the water out of the sewer,which is under repair. This sight, so novel in the streets, attracts much notice. iLASD AND WASTE LAND. . . el , %,• - . /6,,,,,,, ' • 1788. . '' Table of the larger quantities of Waste Land, and Counties containing the same, in the United King- dom; about two-thirds of which are convertible into arable, gardens, meadows and pasture; and one-third for planting young trees, and the Tutu,.: procuration of turf, peat, &c. for fuel : ENGLAND AND WALES. SCOTLAND• . Acre& Acre,. Bracknock .! berdet . . Cardigan ,.. Argyle Carmarthen . - .V... 0 Ayr Carnarvon Cornwall .... Cumberland .. 130 Bute Derby lOO Dumfritx l-..1,t/f.", Devon Durham .... 1 Farm Inverness =• • • •...4.... • bright .. lOO,OOO Lincoln Montgomery ...... 1110. Peck ... OO,OOO Non humbciland ... 160,0 M Ross • 545.40 Surrey Westmoreland .... 110, luthetland Wilts ROO, Wigmern Yorkshire IftELIXD. Acres. ' Arr... Antrim . 218 .000;Limmick Cavan Clare Cork lel, Roscommon Donegal . 4l7.isata i go Down Fermanagh l2o,oo o lTyrons Galway 632,040 Wexford • King's County Leitrim N.B. The unprofitable land, in the united kinr dom, of which Scotland contains 8,523,930 acres, comprehending the surface occupied by roads of every class, lakes, rivers, canals, rivulets, brooks, &c. town and villages, farm yards, and all other vacant spots, as quarries, ponds, and ditch.,:, hedges and fences of all kinds, cliffs, craggy decli vities, stony places, barren spots, woods, and plan tations, are 15,301,994 acres. • The greater pof this county is belongin g t o Compa nies ln the dry of L ondon. + The othercounties, which we have not included in tilts estimate, contain, notwithstanding, in the aggregate, • vrry considerable quantity of Wane Land ; and while we oh. serve Yorkshire, Mayo, and Sutherland, &c. with such gigantic proportions, let it be recollected that even the el - maitre Rutland, though smallest of English counties, cm. tains of this portion of National Asset, 1000 acres ! PLAN OF DRAWING PROM THE CIRCING I.T. The exhibition on Tuesday, before His :thict V, of this new mode of draught, as applicah!e to cavalry horses, was attended apparently ratite the greatest•success. At about half-past two o't 'leek a party of the 9th Lancers, Wattled by several otlicers, took up their station in the Home l'a•k, in the clear apace immediately under the Te. race wall. There was also present a party of the lloise Guards Blue ; and a boy belonging to the Life Guards, dressed, under the superintendence of Major Head, in the costume of the natives of South America, mounted on a grey charger, was an ob ject of some curiosity to the company. The 'tre es. which was exceedingly picturesque, consieted of red poncho, which is a sort of full, short cloak, made out of a circular piece of cloth with a hole in the middle to admit the head and neck of the wearer ; a higireerowned straw hat, with a narrow rim, fis:- ened with a leathern strap under this nose ; u tete linen trowsers, fringed round the aside; beet+ marls of untanned hide fitted to the feet; ennrn.oos sines and massive Spanish stirrups. Tile horse wasill.&- naged simply by a piece of plaited cord enriched to a bit of enormous power, and the rider lield in his hand the lasso, a piece of leather thong, abo u t 20 feet long, with a noose at one end, and attached at the other to the girth of the horse. And from this lasso of the South Ainei leaps, who are so expert is its use, and throw it with so meek exactitude, as to be able to catch and carry off at lull .peed the wild horned cattle in the plains of Spanish use tica, and at a distance of 20 feet, Major Head, we presume, first formed the idea of applying the principle of horses drawing from the girth to mili tary tactics. Shortly after three o'clock, the King arrived on the ground in a pony phaeton, accompanied by the Landgravine and the Princess Augusta, and fol lowed by three o:her pony phaetons. containing the Duchess of Saxe Weimar and her family, Leal Holland, Lord F. Fitzclarence, &c. &c. The using princes were likewise present, also the Marquis of Douro, Sir Andrew Barnard, and several other distinguished personages. The queenwas not present. The King, immediately after his arrival, ordered the horses to be taken out, as they appeared fidgetty from the heat of the weather, anti, his Majesty observed, they might incommode the com pany, which was very considerable. Major Heel was present, mounted on a handsome charger, and conducted all the operations, which he explained, as they proceeded, to the King. The first expe riment tried was, to recover and carry off an mu - munition waggon, supposed to be left behind on the field, in a retreat, and which, but for this ne.v application of power, must be relinquished to the enemy. At the word of command, a body of the 9th Lancers rode up to the waggon, fully expripped every man having a cord with a hook at each end of it (the curds of different lengths :) an! each fastening one hook to a ring in the circingle (which is an extra girth, made of leather, and fixed over the saddle) and the other hook to the pole of the waggon, they gallop silt at full speed and carry the baggage waggon with them with the greatest facility. A heavy car, called the " Columbus," containing a serjeant and fifteen men of the Coldstream Guards, was drawn for a considerable distance by tha same means; and when the cavalry halted and disengaged the tasso fro:a the horses, the infantry dismounting at the same time, advanced and charged together. This movement, which was executed with great rapidity, showed, that by means of drawiii toe.. the circingle horse and foot may be made to co operate. A six-pounder field-piece was in Ilse ,manner carried off at full gallop, and with coe.- parative ease, by only two cavalry horses, and a heavy truck, containing straw, &c. vial, taken away by one horse. A bull, chose horns huh been entangled in the lasso, was then dragged fo - ward by two of the cavalry, and carrier) et full trot, all the resistance of the animal Whig in effectual. Several distinguished officers co, Cat ground expressed a decided opinion as to the suc cessful result of the experiments, and coueideieJ that the introduction of Alajor Head's pima into oar military tactics would be attended with con siderahle advantage to the service Ah: 'tared trout the Windsor Express. •1