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London, England, 1831-02-26 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

GLOUCESTER JOURNAL, Fits. 19.
We observe with great pleasure, the practice of appropriating small
plots of land, for the purpose of garden ground, amongst agricultural
labourers, promises to be extensively adopted. But the benefit which
such a plan is capable of effecting, may be set at nouot, unkss the cot-
tager, wgetber with the opportunity, acquires the knowledge of fully
nailing himself of the advantages thus placed within his reach.
The means of obtaining such knowledge, are now readily offered, in a
small pamphlet written by Mr. C. Lawrence, of Cirencester.
The conversion of the river and harbour of Swansea into a float has
long been a subject of much interest and speculation among nautical
men and those connected with the trade of the port. The project has
been revived, and Meetings of the different interests on the river me
'about to be held. Mr. Telford, in a report in 1827, pronounced it to
be "singularly situated for the purpose." Should the proposal for
a !rot be rejected, it will be incumbent to provide, by some other
ussales, a place of safety for laden vessels, as this deficiency of the port
has long been a subject of complaint, particularly since, in consequence
of the embankment of the sides of the river, the strength of the current
has been increased, and the recesses in which the vessels formerly found
shelter have been filled up ; whilst the layers at the Mumbles, owing
tegursit of ballast, improperly discharged within the anchorage
and an accumulation of sand, are no longer covered with that
isoft mud which is so important to vessels when they take the ground.
The Duke of Beaufort has expressed his readiness to concur in any
measure that may be expedient for the welfare of the port.
A ballot took place at Dowlais among the workmen, with respect to
the shop established there for their accommodation, the result of which
was decidedly in favour of the same. It appears the shop has been
some time established by the Dowlaia Company, to supply the neces-
sities of the workmen, on the principle of the truck system. The pro.
victors of that shop being anxious to ascertain the feelings of the men,
with regard to the continuance of their establishment, employed two
disinterested persons to take a ballot upon the question, whether the
workmen were satisfied or not with the principle upon which the shop
is carried on. This question was decided in the affirmative, by a ma-
jority of 1,029 votes. By a solemn deposition made before a Magis-
trate at Merthyr, it is stated that the ballot was fairly and impartially
taken, without the possibility of its being known what vote was given
by any of the parties.
We have been told that an individual of this city, one of the " free
and independent" electors of the great mercantile city in question, who
conferred upon one of the candidates the "honour of his vote and in-
terest" during the late contest, returned home a better man by eight,
ponds than he went I—Worcester Herald.
CIRENCESTER, FYN. 14. Wheat, 04s to 80s—Barley, SOs to
42s Gd—Oats, 24s to 29s—Beans 33s to 40s.
D 1 ED.Mrs. Sarah Darke, sister of the late John Darke, Esq. of
Bredon, near Tewkesbury—Euitt Petty, aged 72, of Brok
relict of the late Rev. J. Pelly Raw of Weston Subedge—Anna Je-
mima, relict of the late J. Lane, Esq. of Hertford.—at his baronial
mansion, Mangenbury Park, E. J. Chamberlayne, Esq. Lord of the
Manor of Mangersbury, Deputy Lieutenant, and Justice of the Peace
for tiloucester, Oxford, and Worcester. A conscientious regard to
principle always distinguished the public and private acts of this gen.
tleman. Asa scholar, he yielded to none of his cotemporaries in clas-
sical acquirements. Mr. Chamberlayne was the last lineal descendant
male of the Faris of Tankerville, who came to England with William
the Conqueror, and whose name was changed to that of Chamberlayne
[by letters patent from King Stephen, in consequence of that family
having held the office of Chamberlain in three successive reigns; and
from the wealth and political influence which they enjoyed in the coun-
cils of succeeding Sovereigns that occupied the British Throne, became
allied and connected with the leading nobility of this and the sister
kingdom, as well as the house of Nassau.
TYNE MERCURY, FEB. 22.

A public meeting is called in the Guildhall, of the inhabitants of
Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Shields, on the 24th, for the
purpose of establishing a Society to be designated the " Widows and
Orphans Temporary Relief Society in Cases of Shipwreck," and appli.
cable to persona residing within the limits of this port.
A meeting of the merchants, sliipowners, and other inhabitants of the
port of Sunderland, interested in the commercial prosperity of the coun-
try, held a meeting in the Exchange of that town, on Monday last,
for the purpose of framing a remonstrance to be forwarded to his Ma.
jesty's Ministers against the projected duties on Baltic and Camel=
timber.
On Friday last, a numerous and respectable meeting of shipowlsem
and others was held at North Shields on the subject of the parsed al-
teration in the duties on timber. Resolutions were passed, stringly de.
Ipreeating the change intended to be introduced by the (Antietam of the
Exchequer.
A petition has been forwarded to the legislature by the MUNI ft
Sunderland, praying for the immediate abolition of the tax of M.psr
month, now levied on Btitish Seamen for the support of Grewwidt
Hospital; and that such sum may In future be appropriated to the re-
lief of destitute seamen in the ports to which they respectively belong.
The Mayor, we are happy to observe, has a petiole moving nightly
labout the streets of this town, in addition to the ordinary watchmen.—
His Worship is resolved to put down the system of young men standing
at the corner of the streets, and annoying Rersons passing. He has given
lorders to the police also to put an end to the practice of firing guns in
the suburbs of Newcastle.
On Saturday a meeting of those persons favourable to the establish-
ment of a corn market in the Middle-street, was held in Mr. Fletcher's
Turk's Head Inn, Bigg Market, Newcastle, Anthony Easterby, Esq.
in the Chair. r. Carr reed over Mr. Green's report and survey
'which he bad made of the site, in which it was stated that the expense
of carrying the design into effect would amount to 51,482, from which
was to be deducted 8,8721. 5000 L of which was expected from the
Corporation—as the Town Clerk himself had told them they would
not be rash in expecting such a sum from that respectable body—and
the rest the value of materials on the site, thus leaving 42,610 to be
raised by shares of 501. each, and the rents to be derived from the
premises would be quite sufficient to pay 5 per cent on this sum. Six-
Men thousand pounds had already been subscribed, and the subserip-
don paper was then lying for the signature of any of the gentle.
men who were present, that wished to forward the undertaking by
liking shares.
We observed in the Tyne Mercury' of last week that it could never
seriously be in the contemplation of his Majesty's Ministers to subject
the port of Newcastle to the payment of one shilling for every chaldron
of coals sent out of it, while every other pert in the kingdom is free
from the impost. Lord Althorp states distinctly that he has not over-
looked this odious and oppressive tax, which bears exclusively on the
Coal Trade of the Tyne; that he intends not to give it up this year,
at all events, and that he conceives it is not a regular government tax,
but a part of the property of the crews. The inhabitants of Newcastle
have received this intelligence with the indignation which becomes then,.
They addressed a requisition to the Mayor to call a public meeting on
the subject, and his Worship, with equal promptitude, has fixed to-
morrow, Tuesday, for holding it. Sir M. W. Ridley has expressed his
determination now to have the opinion of Parliament on the subject.
If this had been done at first, when Lord Althorp distinctly stated that
he meant to take the duty off all sea-borne coals carried from one part
of the kingdom to the other, with what decency could he have said,
" No, I will keep the Richmond shilling : I will liberate the trade of
every other port in the kingdom but Newcastle, and 1 will shackle it
with a shilling a chaldron for all the coals sent out of it." For the
administration to pretend that this tax of the Richmond shilling is not
a government tax but a part of the property of the crown, is to add
insult to injury. We say in conclusion, that we trust the coal owners,
the ship owners, and all who wish well to the trade of Newcastle. will
never rest till they see an end of the Richmond Shilling, for till that
tax is removed, it is folly to say that all the coasting duties are repeal-
ed : the most obnoxious and the most iniquitous remains untouched.
Sunderland and other ports are freed at the expense of this ; and we
know that many respectable coal owners of the Tyne would rather that
all the duties were still paid than that this invidious tax should be left,
as it deprives them of the power to compete with other places.
MARRIED.-- At Kendal, the Rev. Thee. Aircy, M.A. to Isabella,
only daughter of the late Rich. Holme, Esq.
DIED.—At Norton, near Stockton, the Rev. John Paulsson,
aged 70.
CALEDONIAN MERCURY, FEB. 19.
The Council met yesterday by adjournment for the purpose of fur-
ther considering the subject of the new churches proposed to be erected
at the Castle Hill, when the Lord Provost stated that he was more cos-
firmed than ever in the opinion he bad formerly expressed, that the
neighbourhood of the site proposed for these churches was by no means
such as to all for the erection of so costly a building as that designed
by Mr. Hamilton, however much he admired it ; and that the churches
to be erected in the Old Town should not be of such a kind as to prove
an attraction to the wealthier population of the New Town, but of
that description that was most suitable to the parishioners, for whose
accommodation alone they were provided. A long and desultory dis-
cussion now followed, in which perhaps more than a dozen of the mem.
hers took a part, but at length, the question seemed to be narrowed to
the mere matter of expense, and of good faith towards Mr. Hamilton,
and as it seemed to be a very general with not to go beyond 12,0001.
it was at length resolved, without any division, to instruct the Church
Committee to procure from Mr. Hamilton such new plans, or modifi-
cations of his present plans, as would bring the total expense of build-
ing, inclosing, and finishing these Churches, to about 12,0001.
The public have a great treat in store in the contents of the Scottish
Academy's fifth Exhibition, which opens to them this day. The num-
ber of subjects, including architectural drawings, miniatures, and enr
graving., is 358, of which rather more than a fourth consist of permit%
more than a third of landscapes, a few historical 'pictures, and the re-
mainder of domestic and fancy subjects ef dogs, horses, b..c. Ames
the historical subjects, these which will attract every eye are, the Gow-
nsman' Baptism, by George Harvey. a most admirable comperidos.
Mr. Harvey has also given us two admirable single portraits of Core.
neuters. We have Mr. Lauder's admirable picture of the Bride of
Lainamose, whose merits have essently gained the paintut.the SOL pries
at the Liverpool exhibition ; as well as his small scene from the lageed

of Montrose, already engraved. Mr. Watson Gordon's picture funs,
the Tales of the Crusaders, is a powerful and effective composition.
Duncan's picture of Lucy Ashton, at the Merinaiden's Fountain, ex.
bibits the artist's powers of conception and execution. From the nu-
minous landscapes, many moot admirable specimens, it is really difficult
ea select. We must content ourselves with referring to the Solway, by
Williams ; Stranded Vend, Ewbank ; Dean Castle. Rev. John Thorn,
sea ; Kinfauns Castle, and Vale of the (laces,, by D. 0. Hill ; Dorn,
Castle, by Williams; Woody Scene, by Benjamin Barker; Mouth
of Firth of Forth, by Ewbank ; and the Cathedral of Rotterdam, by
Roberts.
Such was the fury of the late storm, that • large quantity of shell.
fish, oysters, and clams, were driven on the beach at Caroline Park,
with the flab in them alive—the shells bearing marks of great abrasion
iron the action of the shingle with which they were accompanied. We
bdleve this is a very rare circumstance, as none of the people in tlo-
=bourhood ever remember to have observed any thing of the kind
At the fourth evening meeting of the Society of Antiquariuns tat
Scotland, twenty-three small silver coins, with inscriptions in an on.
ental character, from the Ruins of the Tartar Settlement of 'Bulgaria
on the Wolga, were presented by John Gregory, Esq. advocate. Au
account by Captain Jr. E. Alexander, was then read of the discovery in
the wall of the palace, Castle of Edinburgh, of the remains of a child,
which were wrapped in a shrowd of silk and cloth of gold. Several
of the bones bate been presented to the society by the Reverend Mr.
Chapman.
One-fiftieth part of the grain, the produce of Scodand,has never been
sold In bulk—in point of fact, there are not more than ten markets ir.
Scodand,where grain is sold in Scotland.
By stuffing a leg of mutton with spinach, you give it the taste of
venison.
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Brown, late farmer
in Markle, and well known to the world as author of a Treatise on
Rural Affairs. He died at Drylawhill, East Lothian, on the 14th inst.
after a few hours' illness, at an advanced of life. Mr. Brown
was born in the village of East Linton, and In was intended for
a different profession, but the bent of his genius soon led him to agri.
cultural pursuits, which he long followed with singular success. He
was a contemporary and intimate acquaintanse of the late George Rea-
de, Esq. of Phantassie, and to both individuals modern agriculture is
greedy indebted. Mr. Rennie confined his attention chiefly to opera-
tive agriculture, and his fine estate bore ample traces of the skill with
which his plans were laid, and of the accuracy with which they were
executed. While Mr. Brown followed close on Mr. Rennie in the
field, the energies of his mind were directed more particularly to the
literary department of agriculture, and his "Treatise on Rural Affairs "
contains imperishable evidence of the admirable system followed by the
two friends, and of the vigour of the writer's mind. Mr. Rennie's ob-
servations had to be viewed personally.
We announced in our last the death of Mr. Robert Tullis, the printer
and proprietor of the Fife paper. Mr. Tullis, as a man of hostiles-,
was known in a very wide circle, in which the calm and steady punctu.
ality of his conduct made him at once valued and respected. He was
long the proprietor of an establishment connected with bookselling,
larger than most that are to be found out of the metropolis; and his
enterprise and good sense gave to its various branches an extension and
stability, greater, we believe, than was anticipated even by his warmest
friends. He was the first who established a printing-press in Fife, and
being appointed printer to the University of St. Andrew's (his native
city) he engaged in the publication of a series of the Latin Classics,
edited by the celebrated Dr. John Hunter of that place, which, from
their correctness, as well as their typographical beauty, will perpetuate
the names of both editor and printer.
MARRIED.—At Viewforth, Mr. Geo. Anderson, of Gladswood, to
Miss Christina Beatrice Patison,—Alexander Buchanan, Esq. Slate.
field, Glasgow, to Catherine Gairdner, eldest daughter of Stewart Jolly,
Esq.--Jobn Ramsay, Esq. of Bans, to Susan, second daughter of the
late Alex. Jones, of Piunedden.—At Fortrose, George G. Mackinnon,
Dto Miss Barbara Madman, of Btoomhill.
lED—At Wick, aged 81, Alex. Miller, Esq.
DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER, FEB.
Yesterday evening, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant held his first
Drawing-room for the season, and it was numerously attended. There
were present—The Lord Chancellor and the hon. Miss Plunketts, the
Master of the Rolls, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief
Baron, Mrs. and the Miss Joys, the Attorney-General, the Com-
mander of the Forces, Lady and the Misses Byng, the Commander of
the Garrison and the Lady Blakeney, the Misses Magee, the Under.
Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, the Adjutaat-General and Mrs.
D'Aguilar, the Quartermaster General and Lady Campbell, the sere.
ral members of his Excellency's Household, Earl and Countess of
Roue.
Ladies—Lamb, Meyrick, Cloncurry, Fitzroy, Jane Parsons, Hod-
son, Lees, Burke, Morgan, Louth, Gore, Booth, Butler, C. Fitzroy.
Lords—Clanmorris, Fitzroy, Louth, Lovaine.
Bishops—Down and Connor, Killaloe.
Many thousand of people assembled near Ballina, on Tuesday, the
Bth instant, and were proceeding towards the town. Several anis-
tates went out to meet them, but their intresdes that they would dis-
perse produced no effect ; upwards, It is said, of five thousand per-
sisted in proceeding, upon which, fearing fatal consequences might re-
sult from such a large body of people entering the town in a tumul-
tuous manner, the magistrates hastily returned and ordered out the mi-
litary, and the people finding the approaches to the town thus occupied,
after some short delay dispersed. It was expected that a similar ga-
thering would take place near Crossmolina on Tuesday Int. The be..
rosy of Tyrawley has also been kept in a constant state of alarm during
some time past by the nocturnal outrages of armed parties of men. Se-
veral pounds, in which cattle under distress foe rent were confined, have
been levelled with the ground.
In consequence of the recent address from Newry to his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant, • declaration has been published in the Newry
Settetiner, to which upwards of five hundred respectable signatures are
affixed, disclaiming that address, lest it should be construed into an
approval of the recent prosecutions.
There are no fewer than five branches of coal tax in Dublin, viz ;
The Ballast-office tax, the Wide-street tax, the Corporation tax, and
(the most Impudent and intolerable of all) the Guild of Merchant's
tax. The mat justifiable of these taxes are, no doubt, three times be-
yond the necessary amount.
An extremely numerous and highly respectable meeting of the friends
of Parliamentary Reform in Cork, took place on Monday. The entire
building, galleries and all, was crowded to excess, and hundreds had to
go a way for want even of standing room. At half-past twelve o'clock,
F. B. Warmish, Esq. was called to the Chair. Dr. Baldwin came for-
ward and addressed the assembly in a long and brilliant speech ;he
was followed by Messrs. T. Lyons, Stawell, Dowden, Ronayne, and
J R. Barry,—when half-past four o'clock having arrived, Doctor
Baldwin proposed an adjournment, which being put from the Chair,
was carried, and the assembly, first giving three cheers fora repeal of
the Union, separated.
Archdeacon Smith died on the 30th of January instant, and on the
31st his place of Manner of St. Patrick's (8001, per annum) we,
filled up by the Rev. J. Magee. Rector of Drogheda, by the sign ma-
nual of the Archbishop of Dublin.
On Sunday last, the inhabitants of Kilcooney, in the Union of Head-
ford, assembled for the purpose of petitioning for a repeal of the
Union.
MARRIED.—Michael Bayne, Esq. of this city, to Catherine
Maria, eldest daughter of the late James Biggs, Esq. North Wall.--
T. Conan, of Cove, Esq. to Frances, second daughter of John O'Con-
nor, Esq.—M. A. Beecher, of Hollybrook, Esq. to Eliza, daughter
of the late D. Sheeran), Esq. of Cork.—T. Hamilton, R. N. to Anne.
second daughter of John Millet, Esq. of Ballintra.—ln Clogheen, Mr.
Thos. Rudkin, to Ellen, second daughter of Francis O'Brien, Esq.
DIED.-At Rathmines-house, Aquila Kent, Esq. of College-
Rev. Dr. Hales, Rector of Killeshandra and Chancellor
Mallow, C. Haines, E'q —ln Cork, Joshua Carroll,
Esq.—ln Killarney, Lucy, relict of Samuel Sealy, of Dingle, Esq.

BIRTHS.
The 23d inst. in Wiginort-street, the lady of John Jacob bu:ton•
Esq. M.P. of a daughter.—The 19th inst. at Mershanrhateh, the lady
of Sir E. Knatchbull, of a son.—The 24th inst. in Harley-street, Mrs.
Berkeley Maxwell, of a son.

IidARRIED.
At Trinity Church, Sr. Marylebone, on the 15th inst. the Rec. Stair
Douglas, only son of the late Rear-Admiral Stair Douglas, to Maria
Edith, youngest daughter of Woodbine Pariah, Esq. of Upper Har-
ley-street.

DIED.
'the 23d Inst. in the 26th year of his age, Henry Hamlin, eldest nos
of Mr. H 1 eete, surgeon, Thrapstone. Northamptonshire.—The Od
inst. in Finsbury-square, at the house of his son-in-law Dr. B.:0
bington, Benjamin Foyle, in the 80th year of hie age.—Thc 22d inns a:
his father's, Church-street, Kensington, J. Bell, jun. EN. formerly('
Bordeaux, and lately of New York.—The 12d inst. in Bruton-street
Dowager Lady Scott, aged 82.—The 19th inst. In Lower College-greer.
Bristol, Catherine Elizabeth Biabton, wife of W. Owen Jackson. Fl.9'
barrister-at-law.—The 19th inst. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Capt. .I.l` •
Cairnes, R.N. youngest son of the late Major W. Cairnes, of his Ms.
jesty's 36th regiment.—The 24th inst. at Stratford-place, in the 61.1..
year of her age, Mrs. Drummond, relict of the late C. Drummond, kol.
of Charing.crou.—At Cupar Fife, on the 3d inst. It. Tullis, bookseller.
—At Edinburgh, on the 12th inst. Dr. J. Hare, jun. late of Calcutta.--
At Edinburgh, on the Bth inst. Mary Gordon, wife of T. Abercromby
Duffs Rs + arm:att.—At Edinburgh, on the 9d inst. Mrs. Eliatke'h
Waugh, relict of C. Scott, Esq. of Woll —At Edinburgh, on the 1.1
inst. Isabella Heron, and, on the 9th inst. Jane Christiana, daughter'
of the Rev. C. Watson, Minister of Bumtisland.—At Edinburgh. on
the Bth inst. J. Walker, jun. Esq. W.S.

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