The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-30 00:00:00

SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE.

The General Meeting of the Members of this Society was held
yesterday, at the Society's Chambers, No. Cl. Itineolu's.inn-fields;
the lion. Pitted,. Pt:st President, in the Chair.
After the usual routine of the business of the day, the Report of
the Society's proceedings during the last year was read by the Secre-
tary. After announcing the present to be the tlith anniversary of
the Society, it proceeded to state, that it continued to be very gene-
rally the centre of communication from individuate, both .in the
metropolis and throughout the kingdom, for the reformation of
those °lli:lees of which it took cognizance; and that many evils, in
the deepest degree subverelve of public morals, would have been
without remedy, but far the existence of this Inotitotion. It then
entered upon the particulars of the Society's proceedings under the
tt;fferent heads of its plan, front which it appeared that its
weekly proceedings for preventing the profanation of the Sabbath
had produced considerable improvement in vnany of the eastern and
western districts of the 3letropolis. The Report then detailed the
particulars of what had been effected during the poet year with re-
fer:ace to the trade in licentious and obscene publications, from
which it appeared that it had hero greatly kept in check by mean
of lour pru,ertitiunA against individuals who had been active in
carrying on this abominable traffic, two of whom had been engaged
most extensively through mail coachmen and guards, by whom
many parts rf the kingdcm had been abundantly supplied with
these deleterious productions. Much good had also been effected by
means of a circuit • letter to various pamphlet shops, in which pam-
phlets with indecent plates were openly exposed to view. threaten-
ing the owners with prosecution, if ouch practices were not instantly
discontinued. One offender of this class, it appeared, had been
prosecuted to conviction, and sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment, which had tended to produce the important effect of con-
vincing others addicted to the same practices ; that they were liable
to heavy punishment for such acts the general impression among
them having previously been that works of this description might
he exposed and sold with impunity. The Report further stated
that the Committee had been extensively engaged in correspon-
dence with Clergymen and others, in distant parts of the kingdom,
for the purpose of advising themes to the proper methods of pro-
ceeding for the prevention or punishment of the offences prevalent
in their respective imighhourhoode.. It appeared, that for want of
adequate funds the utility of the Society had been greatly re-
stricted ; many cases of considerable moment having occurred,
which, for this reason, it was under the necessity of declining to
interfere with but that the funds of the Society would soon be aug-
mented by tile receipt of a legacy of :AL, left to it by ha late n,u-
biticent patron, the Bishop of Durham.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 7'l7E DISTRESSED
MANUFACTURERS.

The Lord Provost of Oloitow has received the following com-
munications:— _ _ _

" London, 20th May, 1C26.
" Manufacturers' Relief Committee.

"My Lord.—l am directed by the Committee to communicate
to your Lordship, that applications from Scotland are multiplying
upon the London subscription for relief, to which they do not feel
themselves at liberty to accede till the shall have been intiirnied
what eons Iluve been made, or are likely to be made, in Scotland,
for the relief of the distressed manufacturers of that country.
" Waiting for the honour of your Lordship's reply, I have that
of being, my Lord,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
" W. 11. H VETT, Sec.
" The lion. the Lord Provost, (;lasgow."

" Cavalry Barrack., Glasgow, 23d May, 1826.
'• My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose a draft for 23!.
being the amount of the day's pay, from the Officers, Non-Com-
missioned Officers, and Privates, of the 9th Lancets, quartered in
Glasgow, which we beg you wall accept of in aid or the industrious
poor, to be disposed of us you may think proper.
" I beg to acquaint you, that the squadron quartered at Hamil-
ton have given a similar subscription for the relief of those who
are suttenng in their own immediate neighbourhood.
" I have the honour to he, my Lord,

'• Your most obedieM humble servant,,

A. CAMPBELL, Major,
" Commanding Oth.Laneen.
" The Iton. the Lord Provost of Glasgow, ice. Su. ice."
PRESTON MAY 27.

Reeler OT TUE DISTRESSED.—The Committee entrusted
with the management of the fund raised in this town, for the relief
of toe pour, have had several meetings to deliberate upon the plans
to be adopted in the di.tribution of the money collected. A gene-
ral visitation of the town has been made ; and in the course of it,
the visitors have met with some easels of deep distress ; but, on the
whole, the suffering, we understand, has not been found to be
greater than was anticipated. A■ one cause of the present calami-
ties originates in a want of profitabie employment, it has been sug-
gested in the Committee, that the formation of public walks or
pleasure-grounds in Wise's orchard, would be a very proper ap-
propriation of pier of the fund. There are, however, same obsta-
des to overcome before the scheme can be effected ; but looking to
the great advantages which the town would derive from its com-
pletion, we trust the public-spirited gentlemen who have taken the
master in hand, will be able to surmount all difficultios, and be the
means of giving temporary employment to many industrious men,
in a work, which, when finished, will be a lasting benefit to all the
inhabitants. Hitherto the Committee nave confined their relief to
the plan of distributing provisions (chiefly oatmeal and potatoes),
in quantities proportioned to the size of the family. at reduced
prices. The money already received by the treasurer, amounts to
1,3491.35. lid, The quantity of provisions distributed on Thurs-
day and yesterday was 37 loads of meal, at Id. per lb. ; and 97
loads of potatoes, at Id. per lb.
Beaciotori Fut:o FOR THE RELIEF OF TIM DIR.
TRESSED--Last week 1119 families. co..eisting of 452 individuals,
whose united ea/flings made 21/. lid., were relieved by the Com-
mittee of this fund, and their earnings made up to the sum of one
shilling and eightpence per head, and this week 123 families, mak-
ing together 5115 individuals, have had similar assistance granted to
them. The Committee of the Bolton Parish Fund have ordered
the turn of 111. is. for Blackrod. The greatest exertions are mak-
ing in that neighbourhood to raise a subscription amongst them-
selves, and we are happy to observe with consideetble success.
Amongst the list of subscribers we noticed the name at Sir Robert
Holt Leigh, of flindley Hall, for WI. We hope his example will
be followed by other gentlemen in that neighbourhood who are
able, and doubtless well inclined, to subscribe liberally for the
amelioration of the pitiable condition of their starving tenantry and
neighbours.—P, mom Chronicle.
On Monday last, provisions to the value of 33/. were distributed
to the poor of Bnry and its vicinity, from the fund subscribed by
the inhabitants of that town ; and yesterday another extensive dis-
tribution took place ; and when our information left that town, the
necessitous were still receiving provisions from the same source.—
Ibid. _

EMPLOYMENT rots THE Pooa.—We understand that the
Committee of the Relief Fund have made such arrangements with
the Trustees of the Charley Road, as will enable them to provide
labour for those who arc unemployed ; and in order to give effect
to these arrangements, the visitors have been instructed to give
no relief to such as neglect or refuse to labour. Persons wishing
to be employed are to apply to the Overseers of Great and Little
Bolton. who will immediately recommend them to the attention of
the Committee.--lbitt.

Captain Chivell, and the officers. men, and boys. belonging to
the Ordinary at Plymouth, have contributed one day's pay towards
the relief of the distressed manufacturing districts.

IRISH' COMPANY FOR PROMOTING
MANUFACTURES.

On Saturday a Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company wa
held at the City of London Tavern. Bishopsgate-street. to receive
the Report of the Directly:l. as to the progress waich they had made
In currying into effect tha Resolutiou adopted at the late General
Aiming of the Ilrh of March.

T. S. Rice, Esq. M.P. in the Chair.
Mr. PORTER then read the minutes of the Lest General Meeting.
The CIIAIRDIAN Raid, at their last Meeting he had pledged him-
self to apply to Parliament to enable Shareholders who wished to
withdray to do an. A Bill had accordingly been passed for that
purpose. By the examination of the actuante it would be perceived
that the Directors had not trafficked in Shares; their services were
gratuitous. ile hoped the Shareholders would be of opinion that
the Directors had done everything to meet their wishes, and to de-
serve their confidence. The Diteunrs, in obtaining the new Biil,
were still anxious to preserve the power in their hands of carrying
into effect the objects first contemplated by the Company. Yet,
though they did not avail themselves of the power of making calls,
they were at liberty to make a call, but nut more than 10 per cent.
in one year. . . .

A Resolution was then mooted. embodying the notice, that every
Shareholder who wished to withdraw from the Company was at li-
berty to do so, receivu g the amount of their deposit, less the ex-
penses.
111 r. PALMER then proposed a rote of thanks to the Directors ;
in doing .o he took occasion to eulogae their conduct for the very
handsome manner in which they acceded to the wishes of the Shiite-
holders.

A vote of thanks was then given to she Chairman, rot only for
his conduct in the Chair, but also fur the very prompt and zealous
exertions he made to procure the passing of the new Bill through
Parliament ; alter which the Meeting broke up.

ICONC USE ROCKETS.—An Evening paper having alluded
to the destruction supposed to have taken place at Bhurt-
pore by means of rockets, it may be well perhaps to set
that journalist right in this respect. The latest allusions
made to this subject, in the East India Papers which we
have yet seen, gave us no reason to suppose that the Con-
ereve rockets which 'tad been sent out of England and
kept in the magazinelin India, would be of any service
whatever in the siege of Bhurtpore. The climate, it
seems, renders them entirely useless. A number of above
forty, if our reco:lection is correct, was tried previous to
undertaking the sicgev and all burst suceesinl before
discharging them. The rocket-mew had been
consequence to serve•ln another corps. An
dertaken, some time back, to supply roc
construction, made. in. India, which had
found useful ; but limas not expected
be of any 'mica imtbr siege which
contemplation.

TO THE FOITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Sta,—At a lover of the drains, I occasionally take the
range of the minor theatres, whenever any thing in the
shape of novelty presents itself. In the course of my
visits, I have often witnessed the insolent demeanour of
many of the officers who arc in attendance at these places
of amusement ; but a more flagrant specimen of out-
rageous conduct I never beheld than in the instance to
which I am going to advert. After the cl 'se of the per-
formance at Astley's on Wednesday night last, it rained
heavily, which caused a considerable part of the audience,
in their egress, to remain under the portico, and within
the outer doors of the theatre, until coaches were brought
up to case the pressure. In the rear was a party of re-
spectable ladies, waiting the arrival of a gentleman who
had gone in quest of a hackney coach • when suddenly,
to their amazement, a tall, lean, and lank pieccof " brief
authority"—one of those myrmidons—violently ejected
them out of the theatre, and, idler shutting the doors, pro-
ceeded in the most rude and unfeeling manner to expel
from under the portico the persons who had there taken
shelter from " the pelting of the pitiless storm !" Indig-
nant at the inhumanity of inch gross proceedings, especially
as the greater part were females, I have taken some trouble
to identify this fellow, as well as to learn something of his
character, and I am informed by several persons, of whose
credibility a suspicion cannot be entertained, that this
worthy ()arer has oftentimes acted the same disgraceful
part, where unprotected females were similarly situated.
My olject, Mr. Editor, in addressing you, arises from a
sincere desire to guard the female and most defeneeless part
of the community from the repetition of such unjustifiable
and unmanly violence; and in the hope that this letter may
meet the e...e of the delinquent, through the medium of
your extensive circulation, I forbear to publish his name;
but in candour I must tell him, that my eye will be upon
him, and if there should he a recurrence of what 1 now
deprecate, I trust, upon an exposition, the proprietors will
discharge the duty which, in a paramount degree, they owe
to the public, by no longer 'suffering their estAlishment to
be disgraced by the services of any one who could be
guilty of such ruffian-like conduct.
I remain, with respect, your well-wisher,
May 2d, Itr2ti. N VEST 'GATOR.

POLICE.
QLTF.EN-SQUARE.
ACCIDENT AT ASTLE%'S A.IIPHITHEATRE.

Yesterday, T. B. Hutton. Esq. Land Surveyor, who resides in
Darling-place, Vauxhall, came before the Sitting Alagistrates (Mr.
GREGORIE and Mr. IWHITE), charging two men, named Johns
and Ifillitfeld, with throwing a green glass bottle from the gallery
to the cit, .:hus inflicting a severe wound upon his forehead, at
Astley a Amphitheatre.
Mr. Hutton now deposed, that he was sitting on the second seat
in the pit, on Saturday night, close to the ride, when, about the
middle of the afterpiece, a bottle fell down upon his head, lie be-
lieved from the gallery. The bottle cut him severely, and his head
then bled profusely ; and the surgeon had charged ten shillings for
bandaging and dressing the wound. The complainant's hat was
cut through, and, but for rust, his skull might have been fractured
and his life lost. _ _

Wm. Hall, one of the officers, who took the prisoner Johns into
his custody, now deposed, that he was in the pit, at Astley's, where
he saw the complainant bleeding. lie went instantly up into the
gallery. where he saw Johns standing up, and challenged hint with
throwing the bottle down into the pit. Johns replied, "'Chen it's
my partner, for I had no bottle:" and, on looking.round, witness
saw that Whhfleid was off: Witness then searched Johns, who
confessed that he had bought a bottle of rum near the Marsh Hate,
and a broken glass was found in his pocket.
The prisoner Johns averred that he never threw the bottle, tut
admitted that Whitfield, who has since surrendered himself, had
the bottle in his hand. while himself held the glass.
Whitfield said, that himself and Johns were leaning forward,
from the second seat in the gallery, when the bottle felt down ac-
cidentally.
Mr. Hutton here observed, that he thought it was extremely
necessary that some officers should always be placed in the front
seat in the gallery, to protect the persons in the pit.
Monsieur Duerow, it was stated, had refused to see Hall upon
the subject, and paid 110 amnion to the letter from Mr. Hutton's
Solicitor.

Johns—lt is sixteen years, your Worship, since I was before at
• theatre ; and I will take care it shall be sixteen years before I go
to one again.
Mr. Hutton now exhibited the incision made in his hat, which
was entirely cut through between the crown and the brim ; and, he
observed, Ma if his hat had not protected hit, head, it was probable
that he would have lost his life.

hitficlil and Johns persisted in saying that the bottle fell into
the pit accidentally; and Mr. Mutton, at length, consented to a
compromise.
Mr. GRZGORIE—WeII, be it so; but I certainly have no proof
before me that the dropping of the bottle, which might hare cost
Mr. Hutton his life, was accidental. I hope, Whitfield and Johns,
that in future you will not carry bottles of liquor to the theatre,
and there get drunk.
Whitfield and his companion both promised in future to remem-
ber the Magistrate's caution.

R^POPR Till LORD
Darker v. Rayner, ap-
peal, part beard
Dakln v. Cool e, appeal
per order

VICF
1111/Oft3 res VICI.CHA

ltrummel v.:it 'Pherson,
two petitions, to be
spoken to
Price V. Price. petition
Snaky v. Guillanna,
petition
Pufneld v. Etwes, to be
spoken to
Trustees of the British
Museum T. White, to
be spoken to

ROLLS C
Green v. Ward, jet*.

tnent _
Ermine Westminster
Commissioner., pa.
Thomas v. blank,.
Lip.comb v. Wood-
ward
Berkeley v. Palling,
further directiotnt
and rows
Same Pi' Cockedll

COVRT OF
l'iliddleoex Civ

Tucker v. Wright
Cox v. Sharp
A yton ♦. Scalgell
Dixon and *pother v.
Payne

COURT OF
Attorney-General v.
Mercer's Company
A.ime v. Same, fur
. judgment
William* V. Salmbury,

petition
Stokes v. Burrell, re-
port
Needham v. Lingard.
petition

LAW NOTICES.

OrRT 07 CHANCERY
cn•Ntsunll. AT WI T!
Williams •. Goudehild,
appeal. per order
Smida v. Young. veil.
lion, per order

FT CHANCELLOR'S COT
,INICCLLON, AT MaSTIIINW

kinuaes.
Usborne v. Garet, to be
spoken to
Collins v. Itn•vell. do.
Fawcett., v. White-
house, do.
In re Iluckmaater,
bankrupt petition
Preen v. Hull. per order
Glavdnyton v. Green-
hill, do.
Renton v. Gurney

:OMlT.—Tnis Ever iv
.5 Tail MA9rim 05 TUE
Ordnance ONlce v.
Close

Davenport V.
TriCey V. Abbott

Tracey v. Arm

,
?race] v. tinshant
Att.-Gen. v. Stater,
farther directions
_ and costs
..

BLit. 17;vime, A1.•.t0
Razosbottomv.Walklin

011111110 N PLLAS.—Tea
en. Second Slttin4 In Trl
Middlesex Common luau
Smith v. Apperly, Clk.
Towne, gent. v. Crow.

rsit,l9llll*, AT ?Ir.
lElbert, Edwards re
Btoelcley, bankrupt
petitlun.

17RT.
IMES, AT FIALV•TAST IC.

Vaughan v. Miler
Wattle v. Forbes
Pinto v. Lytle
Same v. RAbrchild
Harvey v. llnde•on
Haggett v. Wei,h
Bromley v. Smith
Cille v. Nicholson
[larding v. Lovering
Eley v. Bicl:nell

der in. ;1 another
Powell v. Lawrence

EXCHEQUER.—Tars
Mamas •. Waldron,
I _ decree OA

I, AT SIT.
10t.1.9,
Hend.rann v. Far-
bridge
Ilullinrake v. Lister
Herman v. Gager
Gordon r. Welstcad
Finncane v. awe
Middleton r. Middleton
Ouhain r. Marshall,
further directions
and costs.

MORROW, AT 12.
Inlly Term, 182 d.

Kcnn♦ ♦. Stanton and
another
Adams •. Short and
others.

fmr, AT TIN.
Palmer v. spell
Hollingsworth v. Hob-

Jackson v. Boum*
Brookes v. Parker
Putney r. Wentworth
Cowrie v. Douglu
Flutings v. Sheppard,
bill and answer
Edwards v. !Howard

son
Willis v. Stone
Clarke V. Hudson
Trinity house v.
Kirkus
Stephenson, T. Tom-
linson.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY.—Tate DAY.
Second Session In Trinity Term, 1896.—Before Lord Stowell, at Ten.

AP: OINTED SITTINGS IN TILE SECOND SESSION OF TRINITY
TERM, le2c.
PartOCATIVI COURT.—Velure Slr J. Nicholl, Wednesday, May 31.
Cover or DX OLGA The: Before the Surrogute4, Thursday, June I.
CON, IRTOR v Conal.—Before Rubirninn, Friday, June
COURT or iss.a nancu.—Mlddlext—Flrst Silting., Wednesday,
May 31. London—Finlay, June 2,
.at kalf.past twelse.
COURT or CnilllON PLIA.I.-311ddleWX—Second 4itting., Wednesday,
May 31, at tiarive. London—Thursday, Jane 1, at ten.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KIND'S BENCH, MONDAY, MAY 21

This day the Court sat an hour before Mr. Justice BAYLEY, for
the purpose of taking c'nnmon motions and buil. As to all other
purposes, this was a dies non, and the Cour: rose before eleven
o'clock in the forenoon.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, 1110NDAT, MAY 29.

[Sittings in London during Trinity Term, before the LORD CinEr
Jt:sr icE sod a Common Jury.l

DORMER r. RORIXS.

This was an action I.riTt;XtiorecOver2l;ol., the amount of de-
posit money on the vale of an estate by the defendant, in his capa-
city as auctioneer, such sale not hating been completed.
Mr. Sergeant 'FADDY and Alr. COMYNS conducted the plain.
tiff's case ; and Air. Sergeant ‘Vt LDE and Mr. CHITTY the de-
fendant's.

The facts of the case are these I—The estate in question was
known as " Piper's" estate in Easex, and formerly belonged to a
family of the name of Brown. An elder branch of the family was
recently desirous of purchasing it, but not then possessing sufficient
property to do so, requested the present plaintiff to make the pur-
chase, with an understanding that he would take it off her hands as
soon as he could. She accordingly employed an agent, to whom
the estate was knocked down at 1,3001. On this sum 15 per cent.
was paid as deposit money. The abstract of the title being in due
course handed over to the plaintiff; she submitted it to her con-
veyancer, who discovered that the estate was encumbered with an
annuity of 3s. 4d. There were other defects iii the title, preventing
a fee from being conveyed to the plaintiff. The abstract was then
returned, to enable the defendant to make out a better title. This
not having been done, the present action was brought to recover
the deposit money.
&Ir. Sergeant VS'ir.nE contended that the agent Brown must be
taken as the principal, he having so designated hims?lf when he
received a receipt for the deposit money, and that the action ought
therefore to have been brought by him. In the second place, the
encumbrances on the estate could not be cleared off until all the
purchase money was paid. When this was done the estate would
be freed from the rent charge.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY MI, in the Duke of Norfolk v. Wortley,
Ist Campbell's Reports, it was held by the Court of King's Bench,
in an action precisely similar to the present, that the principal
ought to be the plaintiff:
The LORD CHIEF JrSTICE—The case referred to is decisive.

Mr. Hutchinson proved that the encumbrances could not be
cleared off till the purchase money should be paid in ; directly
this was done they would be removed.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said, though the plaintiff was
only bound to transter a good title within a reasonable time, there
must be some limit to this period. The purchaser might not pay
the purchase money for the next century. and the plaintiff was not
bound to wait such an indefinite time. With this view he thought
the plaintiff entitled to recover.
Verdict 200/. Costs 40s.

JO6El'll TIIE MONEY-CllANGFß.—Yesterday, at quar-
ter ta eight, Ratta said Malagutti were transferred from the Bicetre
to the Conclergerie, in separate carriages. Rana on hit way smoked
his pipe, and appeared perfectly tranquil. At eleven o'clock the
decree was read to them which rejected their appeal to the Court
or Cassation. They instantly threw themselves into each
other's arms, embraced, and mutually asked forgiveness. Mala.
gutti solicited with much earnestness to see the two money.
dealers, Joseph and Roland, to obtain their pardon. It was
stated to him that Roland was ill. The two Italians breakfasted
together on macaroni, and after their repast they requested that
their clothes might be distributed to the must necessitous prisoners.
According to the custom prescribe(' by religion and humanity, the
condemned, from the moment they arrived at the Conciergerie,
were constantly attended by clergymen, to whom was confided the
melancholy task of preparing the victims for death. At ten
minutes atter four the two cnmtnals were at the foot of the scaffold.
Ratta, the youngest of the two, first received the fatal stroke.
Three minutes elapsed between his execution and that of Male-
gutti, who during this terrible interval was occupied with his con.
lessor. The crowd was immense. From the morning the scaffold
was raised in the Place du Greve, the multitude filled this spot, and
several hours before the execution a crowd of men were seated on
the parapet,. After the execution, the cart, which returned from
the Place du Greve, was obliged to stop for a moment on the Quay
de Fleurs; here several individuals mounted on the wheels, and,
urged by an unaccountable curiosity, sought to open the basket
which contained the dead bodies. " A strange fatality," says the
Journal des Debuts," seems to attend Joseph, the money-changer.
The very day that Ratta and Malagutti were condemned, he was
robbed of four or five thousand francs, and on the day of their
execution be died at nine o'clock in the morning.
MYSTEILY..--NSWILIIIGH, Aram 25.—0 n the 26th of'
September, 1822, a gentleman, with a son and daughter, from 13
to la years of age, came from New York to this place. in the sloop
David Porter, Capt. Seth Belknap. The gentleman called his name
Daniel lll•Daniels Smith, and stated to the Captain that he was a
blacksmith from Philadelphia. and was about to establish himself
in the village. Ile paid his passage in gold coin, and appeared to
have a quantity of that precious metal in his poasesaion. He gave
Capt. P. an order on the Captain of a Philadelphia vessel for his
006, consisting of a great quantity of iron hinges, anvils, black.
amith's articles of every description, and two chests, one tilled with
books and the other with clothing. He. with his children, then
took lodgings in the stone house of 31r. S. Ilasbrouck, and have
not been seen or heard of since that time. The house, we under.
atand, was at that time tenanted by one Silas 1,. Osnlner. Capt.
lielknap, after having taken the order of Mr. Smith, in a week or
two received.from on board the Philadelphia vessel the goods men-
tioned, and brought them to this village, where they have remained
from 1822 to thin time, unclaimed and uninquireet after. The
owner was an intelligent Scotch gentleman, and the great mystery
is what has become of him and his two children. Strong suspicions
are afloat that they came to a foul and untimely end ; but we have
no evidence before us on that subject, and shall therefore leave the
matter for the present, and content ourselves with giving the fore-
going account of things known.—America,, Paper.
l'sreasoitovon.—Probably within the recollection of
the oldest person in this city, the waters of the Nene have
never been at so low an ebb as at this hour. The New
Cut, as it is called, which was deepened last year, to in-
crease the outfall of the river, and remove those obstruc-
tions which large floating bodies of gravel and silt had
formed iti different parts of that cbannel, has had the effect
of draining the upper portion of the river up to and
beyond Orton. to an astonishing and prejudicial degree.
It is to t' occupiers of land in the immediate contiguity
matter of serious concern—for not only are
ths water, which was at once a
of other cattle, and a watering-
the river itfelf has ebbed so far
such a depth. of mud betwevr
-4 waterp ap tp *auger; the live.
may approach on this treacherous