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well Imbed hap of good grieel are to be broken. Thfh
business is now going on at Ridge Hill, and those our-
vryors who wish to see the brat way of preparing Finset, •
may there obtain mike very sterol iofurntation. The gravel
as it conies from the pie is mil sifted; then it M washed
in sieves, held 'under the matte: the stone-breakers then .
sake not, according is they want 'a supply. the atones
exceeding one Mch and a half in length ur breadth. Thole
which they hfrib, they pat together in separate heaps. The
uew road at Ridge Hill is formed as follows: it.ere being 00
stone in the cisonty, a layer of six inches ',reboil is pot over
the clay, then sex inches of well srrersien grovel over that,
then three inches more of than., and opou this is laid for
right feet of each side of the centre of the road, the broken
grave I stone three inches deep, making a breadth of sixteen
feet of broken gravel stune : on each side of this, the small
'travel stones are pat fur four fed wide and three inches
deep ; and on each aide of these smell stone's, the siftings of
the gravel is put, also three inches sleep. And thus a road
is formed, having the 'Morro centre feel composed wholly of
broken 'Roue, eight feet of small well.cletowd gravel, and
six feat of weaker materials. No part of the gravel is vast.
ed, and the rood is strong where it ought to he SO. The
Fame sort of surface rimming would answer for all roads
having a good fooodation ; and it would rust notch less
than the heavy coats of ballast, whirls have lately been laid
Ull the .Wht %%rune and other 'I., no., one half of ahick is pore
cloy. 'lbis way of mending a rood, :wakes at least one
horse's draft in four additional labour to more heavy loaded

carriages.
Your Committee, before they close this their last Report
upon the very important subjects which have been referred to
them, feel it ter be due to the credit of the Committers of
1915 1111.1 181%, who have preceded them, to recapitulate
very shortly what have been the practical results of their
laboors.
1. In consequence of the Holyhead mail being sent
through Coventry in place of Oxford, and 44 other regola-
row; of the Poat-office it performs the jilorney in thirty-six
hours ; that is, is six ;tours less time than it "lid to 1815,
and in ten horn-, less time than it did in 1809.
2. 11i 1815 an Act was passed to appoint Commissioners
for tier improventest of the road from London to Holyhead.
It appears by Mr. Telford's Report MI the road in North
Wales, that they have made thirty miles of sew road, where
the old road was thensost difficult and dangerous. They will
b: able to complete ten miles inure in the course of this
year, with the grant of money which has been made fur this
purpose is the reseed Session.
3. in the pretreat Session an Act has passed, and money
has bees granted, to enable these Commissioner' to build a
bridge across the Menai Straits, sad to make a new road,
of 4_ miles in length, across the island of Angles,. .by which
nearly three miles will be eared, and all the steep bill. on the
present road.
4. Another Act has passed this Ses.ion, to vest the whole
line of road of 110 milts from Shrewsbury to Holyhead in
15 Commissioners, who will have sufficient funds to mars-
twit the new parts of the road su their present perfect I
state, and, by degrees, fn alter and make equally perfect the
cementing parts of this road.
5. In contequersce of the recommendation of the Com-
mittee of 1917, Mr. Telford has made a survey of the road
from Shrewsbury to London ; and several of the Trusts have
already dune a great deal towatils the immurement of this
C. In consequence of the recommendation of tenth the
Committees of 1815 and 1817, the Lords of the Treasury
liave rumbled the Post-office packets at Holyhead to carry
Coach parcels; and have thus removed a very great impedi-
ment in the way of a free e ornmunicatiou between the two
countries.
7. The Committee of 181' having suggested the utility
of a boat harbour fur the packets to be able to laud the
mail and passengers on the south shore of Holyhead Island
a:: easterly winds ; one has been constructed at Port Dv-
'arab, and a new road has been made to it trout Holyhead.
h. In addition to these improvements, a new mail has
been established this spring, to run between Liverpool and
Holyhead, in consequence of a conutionication between
your Committee and the Post-office, by which the North of
England letters arrive at Holyhead at the same time with
the London letters, soil in time for the packets. This
mail, by leaving Holyhead two hours before the London
mail, brings the Irish letters to Liverpool, in time to be
delivered every looming with the Lundou letters.
AR that rentals, to he done, as it appear. to your Corn-
ter tee. to complete the object of establishing a perfect com-
munication between England rend Irelanc, is, first, to im-
prove the road fur the first 100 miles from London, so that
the mail may go to Holyhead in 34 hours ; secondly, to ins-
rove the mostenelion of the packet.; thirdly, to improve,
iiy new regulations, the conveyance of the English letters
thioughout the interior of Ireland; fourthly. to remove all
the inconveniences which travellers now experience on laud-
ing cud embarking at Holyhead and Howoh, from be.
tog subject to $ strict examinAtion of their Inegage,
aml the payment of fees to the Post-oilier boatmen, and the
Cesium-honer porters.
Jody 6, 1819.

NORWICH, Sarruescit 9•

ELECTION OF SHERIFF.

At the election of Freemen's Sheruf for Norwich,
Tuesday last. Thomas Starling Dav, Ecii, sac un-
enpecte,llv nominated for that office, in opposi-
tion to Edward Taylor, Esq., and a poll took ',lace,
it the close of which the numbers were—Fir Mr.
Taylor. 807; Mr. Day, 530.—After the ituoubr is
were declared by the Mayor. the fullosing
trout Mr. Taylor was received by the Frreuien with
cents ued shouts of applause. Ir
" Fellow.Cuiseas--The office to which you have now
elected me was wither desired nor expected on my part.
bad anticipated that it wouhl base fallen to the lot of some
uthei individual than myself to have been your Sheriff for
the ensuing year, and that having been so secently elected
by the Freemeu of the Ward In which I beside, one of their
Kepresestatives,l should have been excused front serving
any oilier or higher utfiee. Rut, Gentlemen, it has been
your pleasure to place me in the high and important office
of your Sheriff, and to your will, ale decidedly as it has now
been expressed, it is my duty to bow.--(Applanse.)—There
are limes, Gentlemen, when it more particularly becomes
those who value the Laws anti the Constitution of their
country, not to shrink from the discharge of those magis.
artist duties by which the rights mid liberties of the people
cosy be affected. And if ever thee was such a period in the
history of our country, it is the present. The late dreadful
and bloody scene which has been acted at Manchester, has
read the people an awful alai important lesson. It has taught
those who have the choice of the Magistrates to be vigilant
and circumspect ite the selectiou of the men whom they shall
choose. We bare seen the laws of our country violated, nut
by wad is usually and contemptuously denonduated the
boob, but by the Magistrates themselves aiding, abetting,
aud instigatiug a wanton mid unprovoked breach of the
peace. Men, women, and chiWreu, Unarmed, and unpro-
tected, have burn savagely butelteretto and this too while
the people were asietubled to exercise one of the dearest and
proudest rights of F.teglialimen—(Appfause )-I;iefortunately
for the inhabitants of Manchester they have no voice in the
election of their Magistrates. They are spared the trouble
of electing their municipal officer., who art appointed her
Mi-nisters, and paid out of the taxes. Instead of those eta
awl venerable constitutional officers, the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Sheriffs, whose very titles mark their high antiquity;
they are governed by men with the modern, uew-faugled;
and tAlions names of Stipendiary Police Magistrates. Nu
wonder, Oeutlernen, that such officers, so appointed and so
paid, should base very little feeliug in cumnumPwith the
people; no wonder that they should regard the people as
or wo. thy so enjoy the rights which their fellow-countrymen
possess, and should so promptly and vigorously administer
the law of the sword and the bayonet. We have reason to
rejnee that we live under a different jurisdiction. All our
local institutions bespeak a constant reference to the will of
the people, mid thereby manifest their high antiquity, and
tbtir entire Conformity to the genius and spirit of our Con-
asmitios. Take, for instance, the office to which you have
Now elected rwe; The universal practice throughout the
Moistest, is those times whit-agave Weds to the brightest

and noblest of gar laws sad instillation% WO fur the peopk
to elect their own Sheriffs. This cesium wooer seek remote
anthillity, that though users was a otartileordilwieg tfial.jt
should be m in the reigu of Edward I. yet prior to that time
there was no instaiee of any Sheriff having heeit'utherwiee
elected. Now the right of elegies( their Moeda* is possessed
by few places in the kingdom—it is a right which you almost
peculiarly enjoy. lung may you hold it, mad may you shew
by the choice which you make, the wisdoms of dome laws
and institutions which were made by our patriotlealletaillfi!
" Gentlemen, allow tae now to Shenk you for the warm,
nneolicited, and artier exertion' which you have this day
made. I trust that I shall prove myself nut wholly euworthy
of them. I feel, most sensibly, the high importance and the
grave responsibility of the office to which I sin elected ; I
shall enter upon it with an earnest desire to dischame its
duties with silent' soil fidelity. I steed rut rensiud sun
that one of those duties is the preservative of the peace of
the city. This part of my ofike, lam confident, will be
very easy one indeed. And here, Getithissen, I feel it my
ditty most distinctly to state, that if it shall be your pleasure
to meet in a legal and constitutional way to petition for the
redress of our grievances (and who will are that we have Nut
grievances which call aloud fur redeem?) I shall feel it my
duty to be present. Not indeed to let louse upon you a
military force, but to assist you, to the best of my ability, is
the discharge of so important a ditty.--(Shonfs ofrappicum.)
—The right of petitioning is one of the must sacred of our
privileges as Englishmen, sad to protect the people iu the
free and unimpaired exercise of that right, ought to be the
retro( those who have to administer the laws.
" lam very glad that this contest has taken place. It is
of great importance iii the present situation of the country,
that the opinion of the people should be clearly and decided-
ly expressed un those subjects which so deeply involve our
interests as a nation. The event of this election has shown
what is your opinion. Tun know what are my pi/fittest
tentimente, and you have now declared by the decided ma-
jority which appears on the poll, that you regard a friend to
a Radical Reform in the Commons Hesse of Paeliateseet as
a fit and proper person to be your Sheriff.--(Load applause.)
This contest has been conducted in a way the must gratify-
ing to alt who value purity of election. Here has been no
bribing, nu treating, no canvassing, nu perseading.
threatening. All has been fair and open. Such, Fellow-
citizens, ought to be all elections, and such they will be
whets the re,:ple shall in deed and in truth enjoy that share
in the Legislature which is now possessed by a faction of
Buroughinongers.—(App/uttse.)
" I have now only to thank you for the honour whirls yon
have conferred oliom me, and to essute you, that if I shall
be able, at the end of my year of office, to receive the appro-
bation of my Fellow-citizens, it will be the highest reward I
can experience." . . _

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