During the last and the p...
The Times, 1824-11-16T00:00:00

During the last and the present wveek, -reat oiiantitiesedf herrings and pilehards have been taken by t'eau St..IVeidrviMgK-: boals. Ona Friday last, a fine shoal of pilchards w.is-takett Sb-one - of the seans. Thequantiat of fish already secuegd is estmiaretl-ut; more than sufficient to co'er the expePse3 of the bttfit this aeasonq7 which hasl ern unusuaLly great. From the aftanced period of be-2 year, and thevery unsettled statc vf the vwatler. this catch oF'-1 - is considered an extraordinary circanustance. l''he pilchard sean - belonging to Aloatnet's.Bay have been kcpt ir readinrecs during -the whole of the week. and thc men have- been constantly sn the alerl, but without success; the state of the weather has been maucl against them. The two boats that-sunk full of fiA, -asstated in our paper f' last week, have been raised, but the fish is lost, except aboat III hogsiheads, wvhich have been sold for manure.- U7est Britour. - In the Report of Crown Lanids and Quit Rents in Ire- land, iust printed, purguant to the order of Patliamkent, there is quotea tie following entry of a Crown Least, granted in the2&th of the late KinL, to George Capel Coningsbr, commonly calle-d liord Viscount Mlalden the Hon. Charlotte boyle 1Wslsilngham ; and Richard O'Bryarn Boyle, Esq., respecting property in AMnath: -." All that and those housee and messuages in the tovwn of Nav:rux (therein ment!oned), held by 14 tenants, anl all the days' works and laboars in aetiuin of said 14 tenants ; ,nd also another housc in Navar, formerly in tenure of John Philpot; and all custo- mary daties of mowing of corn in ha-vest for one day, and for any other day's work in matking of hay, reserved on any demise of the premises; anid onic hen from every one of said 14 tenants veaily at Christmas, and also two other tenants there ; and all those cuttages lately built without the walls of said town, in a certain street called the ,snon-row ; and also afllshig weir, also a house in 'the teio of Slane ; also a rnessuage, and five acres -ormerly of wrste lasd with the appurtenances, in the town of Finnocklarown, and a house in tie town of Downamore, nd another house in the said town; a-lso a mimse in the town of Ardmulchane ; and also one customiary gal0n, commonly called a Mary galon, of the best bcer of every brewing, made to be sold in the town of Navan aforesaid, aU parcel of the revenues of the late dissolved monastery of Navan. And a rent of 61. n Woau\rc Rru.AiNs iN Sussax.-Tbe -vorkmer. eir- ployed in forming the tuanel u.ider the road at Kemp Town, near Brighton, discovered numerous teeth and bones, which were at first supposed to be part of human skeletons, hut upon being examined by a gentlemuar conversant with such subjects, were ascertained to beioig to the horse and elcpharnt. Similar organic remains arecom. morly fluunil in d3luviai keds, like that on wlhiclh Brighton is situ. ated, and are eviRently the remnhiiis of those land animals w hich were destroyed by tne deluge. The town is built upon an accumu- lation of water-worn nmaterials which fill up s valley of the chall:. A short thie since. a rib of a very iarge aninmal, sipposed to be that of an elephant, wce di.c tvered in the bank on the west side of Shore- ham harbouir. ifr. Mantell has discovered in the iron-sand-stone of this count v, the teeth of an herbivorous reptile of a gigantic Mug-. nitudC. This animal apprOaches nearer to the Iguana of Barbadoes titan to tiny other recent lizari, and .t is proposed to distinguiah it by the namue of TguS/l,sun z r.sea~. DetaLched parts oF tie skeleton, as vertebree, ihigh-bones, &e. have also been, toiuld, of which a parriS- cular nCCount will be laidi,before thc scientitic public. Mlr. Mlantell has part of a thigih-bone in bls possess5On, which there is every rea- son to concludle is referabl e to this animal; its size is so great, that upon a m IOdc-ate computation, die individual to which it belonged must have equalled the elephant in height, and been upwa:ds of t0 reet long.-S&sse.i Ad7vertiser. 1Arlvertisement.1-The Three per Cent- at par, and 20,0001. or 30,0001. to be gained by the risk of only 41. I9s. l-This is literally the case, as Bssi guarantevs to those who may purchase at his offices any of ;he stuck prizes in the present scieme, at least 1001. in money for every 1001. 3 per c-nts. ; lie also pledges himself to every purchaser at his offices, to rewrn 181. for every wYhole ticket, and in pronorlion for shares, to those who do not obtain a good prize on the 16th of December, if applieti tr within ten days fom that date; and as the two 20.000!. prizes must be drawn in the fir,t five m-i- nutes, and all the other capitals (including both the 30,0001. prizes) mlay be drawn that day, it is certain that many persons must gain large fortunes by that dav's dra-wing, and no one need risk moyre tIhan 41 l9s. by a whole ticket, or 9s. tld. by a sixteenth: the full particulars of titls advantageous mode of adventure may be had gra- tis at cither of Bistl's offices, 4, Coroihill, or 9, Charing-cross: where tbe grand lrize of 30,0001., No. 15,756, drawvn on Wednes- day, the 31 inst.nt, wassold in shares; also two 20,0001. prizes, and 23 other capitals, all drawn within a month. 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