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01117:Ell.IVEN. Miacor

f.kterclay .settnicht, (the 3eth the
slay of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Loather,
{when his L0rd...114, NMI pitted Ins twente-first y.ear,)
WAS celetwAted et Appleby with Freed tgetivity. A
ntimerno+ party of gr.ttlentes timed at the liiag's
Head.-10fiert Release:l. Esq. the isl4)er,.
prr-
wded, and the bells writ rung, at interval., thi °ugh-
•ut the Jay, •

e•
• In bettors of the same occasion. a very mutter-
Ilis party of 'gentlemen dined ut the Black Lion.
latish town, on Satunity lest. After dinner, the
health if Lord Lowther (and many Ifv.ppy returns
of the :filth of Jaly) were drunk with three times
tree. Tuis.was tollowed by a variety of other
Masts. level and appropriate; and the higheit
conviviality (flail!' 4insed the meeting.
In the evening, wet,. seas a ball and supper at
the Castle. The situ (any present amounted to
upwards of two hundred and ifty. The supper
was every this,; this/ (mufti be expected at the sea-
son; the wine., Ike. were excellent; and every
part or the entertainment was conducted the
gresiest deverulla.
The wool fair at Keswiek. (td of August,) was
hut thinly attraded, and very little business done:
there bring beitreely any demand for :coarse wad.'
Smith Down sold at 3e.3(l.dier lb. Mr. lopeddisies.
adderstieht. 'at lid. Down, at
154. Common wool, at Gil, per lb. •
About forty gentlemen and farmers partook of a
most excellent diuner. at Mr. Penton's. The uew
room, tat( ly added to the house, was (Trued. on
the re-casein. and contributed much to the conve-
Menee and accommodation of the company. Mr.
The

Speeding woe in the chair : after drinking "
king,"—" The Lord Lieutenant,"—and " jibrOlh
potty to the county of Cuinberlnoil," he gave
" Success to the Workington Agricultural Society,
and the health of their President."

Mr. CUIVAISW returned thanks to the com-
pany, and mated his regret that the circumstance
'MI ~tumid which depressed so materially the
price of cease SPOOL lie by no means wished
theetelsould hese sale for wool of an inferior qua-
lity. isot he should most heartily rejoice there was
IMP retch to sell.
tit MM. country of Europe great exertions were
MAW so improve the quality of the fleece. Firns
fisted sheep had ban found to answer in Sweden.
Desmark and Russia ; he would therefore ask the
theft prejudiced. .by they shoold net answer is
muutry ? Yee big ewe. part he had no doubt of
their esaaweeseig.. ik had began with the Sasebo
Down, and would continue theta, lest, if he changed,
it &sold check the pair prospect of seeing that
Ivied introduced ; bat were he perfectly at liberty.
be should not hesitate to choose the Merino cress.
with the Rylaod.which produced wool of a superior
qiiality to the finest Spanish. The average value
of their dome was lgs. which did am/
wit
tins feeding of the sheep, !easily,
in the Beck from the wool alone.
lie was iodueed, more rod mere, firmly te belies*
the sheep of the country. iestwid of risking a flap
vim, were attended with loos. He hoped. bewails%
the thew was not distaat when lie should am&
iciest/ of line wool of British growth,
it untrectesverg to import froniSpean. To saying dia.
, he trusted be should sot besuspected of not warmly
sharing in the comas. feeling of every English.
man for the success of the SiNasish patron in the
glorious conflict they were engaged. for liberty !
It ass truly viewed by the country as the cause of
Dritain and of Europe at large, and every exertion
ought. and. he confided, would be made to assist
them. He wished to see the British empire

pendent- of sH the world for the eleillitries of life.
HP had sold his wool that' dliet it its. 3d. per
pound, conditionally, that is tercnurse with Ame-
nes. and pease. with Denmark and Russia, take
place Indere the end or the year, otherwise for es.
per pound. He had learnt there had been a re-
port of his having sold his wool previous to the
it ; this was false, and ealculitied- to de him (Hs-
Credit. cud injure the establishment of the Wool
Fair. llr hoped every insidious attempt to des! my
what was calculated for public good, would be de-
fogged and eitonsed. lle was friendly to the 11.11
Flair, viewing it, as he did, as the most probable
means of promoting an improvement in the staple,
and obtaining for the grower a fair and adequate
peke.
He begged leave, for himself, and all these with
whom lie acted, to disclaim any wish or desire to
obtain more than 'drat was ass equitable price be-
tween the grower awl manufacturer : this, he con-
ceived, was must likely to be effected by such an
institution. He thought it highly creditable to the
manufacturers to hare Oven them the meeting;
end in better time, he trusted he should see the
fair well attended by both sellers and buyers. He
hoped web period was not distant, which would be
equally for the interest of both 'Arbil,. Whilst
the manufacturer had not rent for his seta., the
growers ef ammo wool um* • *Moretti
keep it. er sell it at very inferior prices, to cable
those who bought it to lay it tip.
The day was spent with great convirialii3, which
was greatly promoted by the attention 'a polite-
ness of the worthy Chairman, whole health was
drunk with entlimiasin.

rinre are now growing within 300 yards of the
odd Gothic ruins of Fountains Abbey, three miles
from Rippon, in Yorkshire, seven very large yew
hies, generally called the Seven Sisters, whose ex-
act ages cannot he accurately learnt, though it has
been handed down from father to son that these
seven yews were standing in the year 108 A. And it
"is said., that when the Great Fountains Abbey was
building. the masons used to work their stones
during the hot summers, under the shade of these
trees. This stupendous ancient building is 700
feet-long, and ties finished in 1003. The circum-
ference of the Seven Sisters, whey measured by a
cnri•us traveller, were of the fulhissisg sixes ='f'lne
smallest tree, round its body, Ave yards twelve
inches; four others nre from fate yards and a half
is wren yards and a half: the usth is nine yards
and a half; an.l the seventh is eleven yards and •
nineteen inches in circumference, being two yards
and ten inchcs layer thin the great yew-tree now
growing in the clitireh-yartt At °milord iu North
Wale., which is nine yards nine inches. These
trees are tie:targest and oldest growing in the
British dominions.