The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-26 00:00:00

OTHER PERSONS OF NOTE.

The Countess of Clare. Received 1842. •
Miss Eliot. Received 1842.
Miss Gladstone, sister to the Minester of State. Re-
ceived 1842.
Miss Young, and her sister, Miss Isabella Young.
Received 1842.

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Dublin
Leader of a
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e1,8D42a.
Religious Sect in Edinburgh, with his wife, four chil-
dren,
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mr.
Antiquarian Society of Scotland. Received 1843.
.amrndilliam many
Turnbull,
ur hisn bufolLloAwedrvso.
Mr. Charles De Barry and his wife. Received 1843.
Mr. Charles Hemans, son of the celebrated Poetess.
Miss Emily Bowles. Receivediat Rome, 1843.
Miss Warner, daughter of an Anglican Minister. Received 1843.
Re-
ceived 1843.
Mr. Bosanquet, Barrister. Received 1843.
Miss Townshend, daughter of an Anglican Minister.
Received 1843.
Mrs. Srngar, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholie. Received 1844.
Mrs. Parsons, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1844.

Miss Marriott, daughter of an Anglican Minister.
Received 1844.
Miss TReceived
Pigott. 1844.
Miss Harriette
Received
1844.
Mr. Isaac Twycross, M.D., of Oxford. Received 1845.
Hon. Mrs. Heneage, and daughter. Received at Paris,
leaxi e
1845.

Mr. Clements. Received at Rome, 1845.
Mrs. J. Campbell Smith, wife of the Anglican Minister,
who has become a Catholic. Received 1845.

Mrs. Ward, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1545.

Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole, Lawyer. His wife and two
unmarried daughters. Received 1845.
Mrs. Anstice, daughter of Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole.
Authoress of several works. Received 1845.
Mrs. Spencer livrtheote, daughter of Air, J. Poole,

and wife of the Anglicun Minister who has become a
Catholic. Received 1545.
Mr. Mathias Wooclinason, wife, two daughters, and
a son. Received 1845.
Mr. F. W. Tarleton, Lawyer. His wife and her
sister. Received 1845.
Mr. Geo. Talbot Bridges, Barrister. Received 1845.
Lady Annabella Acheson arid Lady Olivia Acheson,
daughters of the Eard of Gosford. Received 1845.
Mr. Edward T. Hood, Barrister. Rcceivel 1845.
Mrs. and Mies NVoo3, the wife and daughter of the
Rev. Mr. Wood, the Author. Received 1845.
Mr. Leicester Buckingham, Secretary to the British
and Foreign Institute. Received 1845.
Mrs. Watts Russell, and Miss Watts Russell, wife and
sister of the Anglican Minister, who has become a
Catholic. Received 1845.

hiss Munro, daughter of Lady Doherty. Received
1845.

Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Anglican Minister of
Swallow Cliffee, who has become a Catholic. Received
1845.

Mr. J. Capes, Proctor of the Pferogative Court of
Canterbury. Received 1845.
Mr. James Robert Judge, Lawyer. Received 1545.
Mrs. Capes, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has
become a Catholic. Received 1845.
Mr. Grenville Wood, Received at Antwerp, 1846.
Mr. Henry Foley, Lawyer. Received 1846.
Mr. Gilbert Ploiner, Lawyer. Received 1846. '

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ONCE
A LAKE.
On a clear day, a person standing on the highest part
of Barton Moss, can perceive that the valley watered by
the rivers Irwell and Merses is completely encircled by
an amphitheatre of hills, except at the point where the
united waters of those two rivers discharge themselves
into the estuary of the Mersey at Runcorn Gap. The
opening through which they flow into that arm of the
sea, is not more than two or three miles in width, and if
it was closed up, the greater part of South Lancashire
and of the northern part of Cheshire, would be turned
into a vast lake, bounded by the Yorkshire and Derby-
shire hills on the east, by the high land, which extend
from this great chain across Delarnere Forest, and as far
as Ilalton Castle on the south, by a corresponding range of
which Rivingtou Pilce and Haigh and Billinge hills:ire the
most conspicuous objects on the north, and by the range
of high land crossed by the two inclined planes on the
'Phis
latter and Manchester Railway, on the west. Ihis
latter range is continued by way of Pex Hill, and the
other high grounds, to within a couple of miles of Run-
corn Gap, and the Cheshire hills. At some very remote
period, the waters flowing from the high grounds which
surround this valley, and which are now carried off by
the channels of the Irwell and the Mersey, and the
Sankey Brook, were probably thus collected in a lake
ins this great natural basin. It was at this time,
probably, that the vast deposits of marl, rich in lime
and beds of sand and gravel, the latter containing
stones altogether different from the red sand stone
rock of South Lancashire, were deposited on the
great Lancashire plain. Here they are still found
in every direction, altering the natural features of the
country, and entirely changing the constitution of
the soil. It is only at few spots that the red sand
stone rises to the surface of the ground, whilst the coal
strata, in which the northern part of this district is so
rich, are nearly all buried at great depths below thick
beds of clay. * * * The only part of the township
of Barton in which the marl does not form the principal
constituent of the soil, is in the rich meadows on the
banks of the river, which appear to have been covered
by the waters of a much smaller lake, at a comparatively
recent period. The ancient banks of this lake can be
clearly traced, on both sides of the river, from its higher
extremity, which is close by a ledge of sandstone rock,
at the point where the Duke of Bridgevvater's canal
is carried across the river Irwell, by means of an
aqueduct, to a point about two miles lower,
where the stream appears formerly to have been
again blocked up by a ridge of red sandstone rock,
through which, however, it has gradually worked its
way. After heavy rains, this valley still resumes its
former appearance of a lake, the waters covering it on
both sides of the stream, and leaving behind, on retiring,
a rich deposit of slime, resembling marl in some respects,
but not containing any portion of lime, owing to the
circumstance of there being no limestone in any
part of the district watered and drained by the river
Irwell, which produces these floods. Still, notwith-
standing the absence of this fertilising substance, the
meadows are preserved in a state of perpetual fertility
by these deposits alone. They are never touched by
the plough or manured, and yet they have yielded heavy
crops of hay in snmmer, and abundance of grass in the
winter, as long as the memory of man, without either
labour or care. In the midst of this rich valley is an
orchard of thirty or forty acres, which is generally
flooded, as well as the surrounding meadows, and which
bears fruit of all kinds in abundance.—Liverpool Times.