Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-11

duty to the West India planter, aho 70
give him monopoly in the home market
A most magnificent silk dress is now IN
the loom, of Spitalfslds, which is intend
ed as present to her majesty. 1t is ex-
pected to be superior to any thing Of the
kind ever manufactured in this country.
1t will be presented to the Queen by
deputation of the master weayers of Spi-
talfelds.
1t appears from the register of burials
in the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch,
that in the year 1888, on the 9th of ia
nuary, was inferred, Thomas earn, of
Hollywell-street, aged 2O7 years!
On Tuesday week man having the ap-
pearance of a horse jockey, sold his wife
at Tunbridge market for one shilling and
pretty young woman, and declared her
husband was such good for nothing ras-
cal she could not live with him.
The venerable and majestic pile OF Red
clifftower, at Bristol was struck by light
ming in the night of Monday the Cd inst.
The electric fluid entered the bell loft
window, the stones of which were forced
out, and large aperture made. A large
beam, which supported one Of the bells,
was shattered in several places. 1t then
passed down the bell wire to the south
side, where it rolled up the lead on the
roof, and dislodged about three hundred
weight of stones.
Some idea of the rage for building at
Brighton may be formed from tie follow
ing fact: short time ago, .S60o were Of
fered for piece of ground, with only
frontage of nineteen feet, and sufficient
depth for the erection Of a house and out
Offices, which is at the rate of Jg2 les. I'd
per inch.
A gentleman in the neighborhood Of
Birmingham, sent a fine and valuable
horse for sale to Stourbridge fair; and a
person who wished to purchase him, beg
ged permission to try him in his PAGES
whether the horse is likely to suit the par
ty is not yet known, the man having trot-
ted out of sight, and not yet returned.
The small pos was making dreadful
ravages in some Of the streets in Liver
pool among the lower classes, owing to
the neglect Of vaccination.
The Queen continues to occupy the at
tention of some persons. One gentleman
had presented to her Majesty beautiful
specimen of penmanship, which her ma
jesty is said to have admired very much;
another had presented her with copy of
"The Itinerant" in six vols. bound in Rus
STA and gold, which Lady Anne Hamil-
ton pronounced every handsome, very
handsome"
The Spinners, in Preston who had been
out of work are all again employed.
The King of England has given up his
intention to visit Ireland.
The Liverpool Advertiser of the 2lst
April, states that Tuesday afternoon, the
fourth Anniversary Of the Wesleyan Me-
thodist Auxiliary Missionary Society
was held in Brunswick Chapel, in the
London Road. The Chapel was crowd
ed, to overhowing. The report was read.
1t appears that the number of missions
ries employed by the Society amounts to
$50, who have under their care 27,452
members, making an increase during the
last year of2302 The sum raised during
the past year was + 2S,5ll rs Sd. The
sum expended during the same period was
.S37,22l l5s 3D. Collected by the auxili-
ary society for the Liverpool District, be-
tween December 1919 and 1920, 81 ,055
lis which exceeded the amount of the
preceding year S6l IS Cd. The report
concluded by animating the societyto re-
newed exertions in the glorious enterprise
of evangelizing the world. The meeting
was afterwards addressed by the Rev.
Owen Davies, the Rev. J. S. Pipe, the
Rev. MIR. Ward, the Rev. J. Taylor, the
Rev. Mr. Midgley, the Rev. DR.. Stewart,
the Rev. r. Philip, MIR. Dawson, and the
Rev. R. Wat: on. During the meeting a
liberal collec ion was made.
After a very able and temperate de-
bate, which occupied the whole of Mon
day and Tuesday evening. the bill for the
relief of the Catholics was lost in the
House of Lords by majority of 80 The
largest and most considerable part of the
population of both the British islands will,
we are confident, learn this determination
with surprise and regret. And so many
arduous struggles: SO many patient and
strenuous efforts after this unattainable
object, during which the approximation
has become gradually nearer, to see the IL
nal contamination of their wishes appa-
rently within their reach, and yet at last
elude their grasp, is calculated to excite IN
no ordinary degree "that sickness OF the
heart which arises from hope deferred"
The best speech on the adverse side OF
the question was undoubtedly that OF Lord
J,iverpool: vet it is perfectly inconceiva-