Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-18

A cast iron pillar is abouI to belerected IN
the centre Of the town of Sheffield, at the
top of which is to be large ball, 10 be light
ed with gass, so that the whole OF the town
and its environs will be illuminated. The
pillar is to be 4e feet high and 80 inches in
diameter.
The Greek house Of Georges Caltochiat
Legborn, has stopt payment for 100000 pl-
astres.
A whale, 60 feet in length and 10 feet IN
breadth, judged to be so tons in weight. late
" stranded in the river Severn, 20 miles
from the mouth of the river. AS soon as 1t
was discovered, wonderful scene of coDiu-
sion ensued in endeavors by the populace to
secure as much of him as possible
A letter from Para, (lndia,) Of August
9th, mentions that a 900 persons, being a
bout one fourth OF the population OF that place
had died of the small pox.
From the last report of The :. Church Mis-
sionary Society,"" it appears that during the
last year they have sent out 10 missionaries /;
viz. West Africa 8 to North India g; and
| to New Zealand The receipts tor the year
was % 900 pounds its expenditure nearly
the same sum. The report states the popu-
Iation OF Sierra Leone to be 10000. An
Auxiliary TO the society has been formed at
Sierra Leone.
1t has recently been discovered that chess
nut wood is ali admirable substitute for log
wood and oak bark for dying and tanning.
and its affinity to wool, is said to be greater
than that Of either gall or sbumac.
With the exception Of Wurtemburg and
Bavaria, all the German soveleigns have
carried into execution the resolutions OF the
FrankfortDiet The press is put under censor
ship, several papers have been discontinued
since this measure went into operation. The
eoilor of the Mentz Journal, in taking leave
Of his patrons Observes" The Mentz Jour
nal has renowned the motto Of Fiat Luz,
which had referenceto the invention of print
ingsin that city. 1t is singular enough that
the nQuisition against the press should have
its head qurters in the place fits birth"
FEMALE sHERIFFs.
Among the anomalies of the British con-
stitution, that of recognising the right of fe-
males 10 be sherifs is not one Of the least ex-
traorlinary The fact is so however the
sber,halty to the county of Westmoreland is
hereditary in the family Of the Earl of Tha-
net, and therefore when that title descends to
female, she becomes sheriff both in right
and fact. Two instances OF such an occur
renee are recorded. The one was in the
person Of the widow of Sir Roger de Clifford,
who Inherited by marriage after his death,
she sat in person, AS sheriff, in the Castle of
Appleby with the judges. The second was
in that of the daughter Of the third Earl Of
Cumberland, the 18th in descent of the Cliff
ford family, who held as lord and hereditary
high sheriff Of Westmoreland. His daughter
when widow, about the year 1860, sat re-
gularly in person with the judges, as sheriff,
in the Castle of AppIeby. This lady left
two daughters, the survivor of whom marri-
ed the Earl of Thanet: hence the title and
rights were transferred to this family. What
answer shall we be able to make to our fe-
male reformers, if they should addufe this
as case in point to justify them for stepping
in the breaches may they not say, if the
constitution allows us the right to execute
the laws, may we not reform the laws