The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-29 00:00:00

THE IRISH COURT.

DUBLIN. January 2d.—Yesterday, his Excellency the Lori
Lieutenant held his first Levee for the season at the Castle.--
The atterdance of the principal Nobility and Gentry, Clergy,
Niilitary and Naval Officers, lc. ate. was brilliant and numer-
ous. There were above 600 present ; and although his Ex.
cellency entered the Chamber loon after two o'clock, the
Levee was not over till nearly five.
[We hail long thought that many of the members of the
Dublin Corporation were in mental darkness ; but we expected
th.t after their visit to London last year, to attend the House
of Commons, they would introduce into their city a portion of
the material light for which the great metropolis is now distin-
guished. From the jets d'esprit, however, extracted from the
Dublin Evening Post of 7 steadily, we find they still are prone
to grope: —]
To LONTRACToRS.—Itie Excellency the Lord Lieutenant
having announced his intention of holding a Drawing Room
on Thursday evening, the 29th instant, and es the streets of
Dublin are every evening nearly In a state of " darkness visi-
ble," from the bad lighting of the public lamps; the Com-
missioners for Paving, LIGHTING, and Cleansing the Streets
of Dublin. wishing to afford every accommodation in their
power to Ladies going to the Castle, are willing to contract
with any person who can supply them with 6000 link boys for
that evening ; sealed Proposals to he addressed to the Com•
missioners, and sent in at five o'clock on the evening of the
99th in order to afford sufficient time to purchase flambeaux and
to arrange and place the boys.
THONAS TIIURTELL means to thew cause against the rile
for a hew trial, obtained by the County Fire Office last
Term, in regard to the fire in Watling-street. Affidavits
in reply from himself, John Thnrell. Ennison, who was
sleeping in the same room with John when be was taken
into custody, and J. B. Snowden, and from a number of
others, are tiled. The consideration of these affidavits. it
expected, will come on on Friday or Saturday in the
Co ninon Pleas.

CONSUMPTION ov BUTCIIER'S MCAT IN LARGE TowNs.
—A compar4tivo st tt..iiient of the qumtity of Meat con-
sumed in a Scotch and an English town :-
1523. Hull eks. Calves. Sheep and Lambs. Total.
Glasgow 16,510 9,337 121 979 151.156
Liverpool 15,217 19,t576 ti 5,993 121,06

DilTrreuee 1,623 10.539 38,986 30,00
The population in Glasgow, in 1823, was 150,000
And in Liverpool - - - - 120,000
It is understood that a considerable part of the shipping
Is pn pplird with fresh meat from the. Liverpool market,
while the shipping belonging to Glasgow is supplied with
fresh meat from the Greenock and Port Glasgow market,
excepting a few bullocks for one shit, in the Greenland
trade, which was supplied from the Glasgow market.
Saturday bring the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Fox,
the annual meeting of the. Gloucestershire Constitutional
Whig Club, took place at the King's Head, Glom ester, in
commetnoration of that even,. Major General Guise in
the Chair. After d once the Chairman made an able speech
in advertence to the principles of the deceased statesman,
and was f01i0.% ed by Colonel Berkeley and others. The
usnal patriotic toasts were drank, and the company, which
was highly respectable, did hot separate until a late
ho, r.
'Nye:mess, JAN. 22.—" In ploughing up a field at Leys,
near this place, the ploughman fount a rod of pure gold,
shout 15 inches long, with three aides, each about on.-
eighth of an inch deep. In the middle it is twisted, and
terminated by a bend similar to a sh-phertl's crook, in very
rude workmanship. It was purchased at 41. 10g. by-Mr.
Naughton, jeweller, and is now in his possession. Some
additional pieces of the same description have since been
recovered by Mr. Natighten : and on connecting them, and
inquiring of the labourers as to the manner in which they
were found, they seem to have forned on- piece of about ;
18 inches long, depth of the sides I-6th of an inch—and to
have been twisted exactlyafter the fashion of the worm of a
cork-screw. It was ((mud in a field which has been long
untilled, in the close vicinity of the Druid's Temple at
Leys; and a conjecture has been offered by a neighbousing
gentleman, who ranks high in his knowledge of these
matters. that it is likely to have been trsed in suspending
vessels with iocence employed in certain religious rites.
This would lead one to suppose that it must have originally
belonged to those of the 'longish Church, for we.do not
think that the Druids possessed those refined modes of
worship.—lneerness Courier.
A burglarious attempt to enter Mr. Kean's. the trage-
diaog's house, N 0.12, Clarges-street, May-fair, between two
and three o'clock on Tuesday morning, by three men, was
fortunately discovered just as one of them was in the act
of entering a room at the back part on the ground floor.
The servant, who gave so alarm in the street, and two pa-
tr,,ls who were on duty in the neighbourhood, ran towards
the spot, but the thieves ran off, and jumping over the
railing into the Green Park, escaped.
At Chelmsford Sessions the Magistrates discussed the
qttestion whether some respectable females of that town,
direiples of Mrs. Fry, shoo's' be allowed to visit the pri-
soners in the gaol occasionally, and on coming to a vote,
they rescinded, bra majority of 25 to 7, the permission
which had been giren by three of the five Visiting Mattis-
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