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Springhouse, near Leeds, Mr. John Simpson, formerly an eminent woolstapler,

65.

At Kighley, Mr. Wm. Illingworth, 65. At York, Mr. Rich. Beaforth, patten-maker, 79. He was an eminent tacher of the old school, in the science of change composation and ingenious art of change ringing on the grindsire methods, in the north of England, upwards of fifty years.—Mr. T. Smith, 54.

At Leeds, Mr. Joseph Walker, merchant. -Mr. Joseph Cockell, of the firm of Ikin, Cockell, and Carr, merchants, and brother of Lieut.-Gen. C. 54.-In the bloom of life, Mrs. Dobson, wife of Lepton D. esq.

At Hull, Mrs. Croyle, wife of Mr. James

C. 101.

At Halifax, William, second son of Mr. W. Howorth, druggist. 28.-Mr R. D. Woumleighton.

WALES.

The following copy of a hand-bill lately circulated at Carmarthen, illustrates a truly pleasing and laudable custom prevailing in We are confithat part of the Principality. dent that, if. generally adopted, it would obviate much of that distress which reduces many an industrious family to the necessity of seeking parochial relief.

"Carmarthen, Sept. 12, 1814. "As we intend to enter into the matrimonial state, on Tuesday the 27th day of September inst. we are encouraged by our friends to make a bidding on the occasion, the same day, at the Falcon, near the Hall, in the town of Carmarthen, when and where the favour of your good company is humbly solicited; and whatever donation you may be pleased to confer on us that day, will be thankfully received, and cheerfully retaliated when called for on a similar occasion, by your obedient servants,

Scotland.

At Dol-y-Vellyn, Radnor, John Pritchard, esq. a justice of the peace, and deputy lieutenant for that county, 72.

At Ba'a, the Rev. Thos. Charles, B. A 59.

SCOTLAND.

The site of the Sutherland Fleet Mound has been ately re-examined by Mr. Telford, who is perfectly satisfied that a surer foundation may be had for the bridge, for which he has finally determined the plan; it is also certain that all necessary preparations will be made during the winter, in order to be ready to commence working with vigour early in the ensuing spring; there is, theretore, every probability, that this useful communication will be completed in the course of next year. The roads of approach to the south an 1 north ends of the Mound are already made m the most perfect manner, and as the line from Tain to the magnificent iron badge at Bonar, will also be equally perfect by Christmas, travellers will soon be enabled to proceed to the extremity of Caithness without crossing a single ferry. The road from Bonar Bridge to Tongue, a distance of fifty miles, through Lord Reay's country, is already undertaken and begun by the contractors, who have nearly completed the Tain road in so expeditious and satisfactery a manner. Measures are likewise undertaken to make a road from the iron bridge westward to Assynt; also a communication from the port and coal-works at Brora, across the extensive tract of country to Strath NaThe county of Sutherland will thus, ver. in a short time, rival its neighbours in useAn excellent specimen ful improvements. may already be seen in travelling along the Dunrobin road from Golspie to Helmsdale, where, instead of travelling as formerly, along loose sands and stony shores, hardly clear of the tide-way, a smooth and wellconducted road is led through enclosed and cultivated fields, past new well-built houses, and over bridges, where streams were forThe road over the frightful Ord, merly dangerous and not unfrequently impassable. and also through the deep valleys of Berridale and Dunbeath, and onwards toward Wick, as far as now completed, is not surpassed by any in Europe; the travellers who recollect its former state, or who have even now to pass the hills of Yarrow on the old road, will be fully aware of the importance of the improvement, and bless the government and proprietors who have contributed to open so effectually this remote, but in many respects, valuable country.

WILLIAM ROGERS, Carpenter,
ANNE CHAPMAN, Servant to
Mrs. Lewis, near the Cross.
“N. B. The young man's mother (Mrs.
Gloucester) and his brother-in-law (Mr.
Dunn) desire that all gifts of the above na-
ture due to them, may be remitted to the
young man on the above day, and will be
thankful for any additional favours conferred
on him. And likewise, the young woman's
father and mother (Thomas and Elizabeth
Chapman) and her sisters (Catherine and
Betsey Chapman) desire that all gifts of the
like nature due to them, may be remitted
on the same day, and will be thankful for
all additional favours conferred on them."-
The contributions thus raised to enable a
newly married couple to begin the world,
sometimes amount to as much as 2001.
which with industry and care may lay the
foundation of comfort and independence
during the remainder of life.

Died.] At Lanarth, Win. Digby Sandys,
g of Trinity College, Cambridge, 18.

Married.] At Lochnaw Castle, Wm. Benmish, esq. eldest son of Wm. B. esq. of Beaumont, to the Hon. Mary de Courcy, youngest daughter of Lord Kinsale.

At Blackhall, Arch. Farquharson, esq. of Finzean, to Francis, youngest daughter of the late Francis Russell, esq.

At Edinburgh, Lieut. Col. Samuel Rice,

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of the 51st foot, to Miss Mansfield, daughter of the late Captain James M.-Captain J. Campbell, 79th regiment, to Janet, el est daughter of A. Macdonald, esq. of Dalelan.

At Glasgow, Jos. Brodie, esq. merchant in Hamburgh, to Maria, daughter of George Thomson, esq. late of the same place.

At Arthurstone House, Perth, J. L. Campbell, esq. of Achalader, to Anne, eldest daughter of R. Macneil, esq. of Barra.

Died.] At Barcaldine House, Argylshire, Mary, widow of A. Campbell, esq. of Barcaldine and Gleneive.

At Campbell town, Nelly, daughter of James M'Donald, esq. of Sanda.

At Methven Castic, Mrs. Smythe, of Methven.

At Seafield, Mr. Alex. Gibson, late rector of the Perth Academy, 69.

IRELAND,

On the 1st of October, after a very stormy night, a piece of West India timber, about 30 feet long, came ashore at Howth. It appeared completely animated, being covered with the animal called Tubularia, in the class Zoophyta, but instead of the tentacula or star which usually terminates the tube, a shell of the muscle shape, and coloured like the sea parrot's bill encloses the most animated part of the animal, which is like a little crayfish, but the tail is nearer to that of a bird, a plute curved like a lobster's tail, of stems with flaments resembling feathers. The tube is about six inches long, and half an inch in diameter, clastic, of a bright flesh colour inclining to orange, and filed with a thick gura, having a pleasing smell The end of this tubs adheres so elosely to the log, as, when separate, to bring away a piece of the timber. The boatman who drew it ashore covered it with a rent, and receives tenpence froch visitor who may take as many of the us as he pleases from the log, for there are, at least, 50,000 of them. The animals will live for several months, swimming about, and go ng from their shell in a bowl of water and salt, and they may be preserved dead in spirits.

[A further account of this remarkable animal, from any of our ingenious correspondents, who may have an opportunity of observing it, will be acceptable.]

The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, have received from Parliament a loan of 20 cool. for the purpose of completing the north square, commonly called Botany Bay. This sum is to be repaid by instalments of 100l. per annum. One double and single Ing are now 100fing in, which will com

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the east side; the northern side is to cost of icur double and two single build, with a grand front of cut stone, nearly -ponding in style of architecture with perb front in College-green, and with reiling. This side will form a Al termination to D'Olier-street. They

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are already laying the foundation, and expect in two years to have it ready for the reception of students. This highly necessary addition will accommodate 120 students and two Fellows. The entire Colicge will then contain but 320 students. The present buildings can accommodate not more than 200; which is far short of one-third of the entire number on the books. It would be most desirable, that all the students should have chambers within the walls of the College, and it is much to be regretted, that in the present contracted sphere of accommodation, twenty-five Fellows occupy one-half of the buildings.

A pair of horns of the palmated deer were lately found nine feet under the surface of a peat moss, on the estate of John Moore, esq. of Drumbanagher, near Newry. They were enclosed in a deep stratum of marl, together with a considerable number of the bones of the animal, which are in good preservation. The segment of the horns by the sweep measures, from one tip to the other, 11 feet 10 inches; the arc line, from tip to tip, 9 feet 4 inches. 'The heal and horns are at Drumbanagher house, and the bones are in the possession of Mr. Bell, landscape-painter. Among these are several of the ribs, the lumbar and cervical vertebræ, the two ossa ili, with part of the pubes and ischii adhering to them. One of the vertebræ weighs about 20 ounces. The teeth, on all of which the enamel is perfectly sound, are small.

Births.] At Harristown, co. Kildare, the lady of Rob. Latouche, esq. of two sons.

In Dublin, the lady of Francis Savage, esq of a son and heir.-The lady of the Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, knight of Kerry, of a daughter.-The lady of W. H. Carter, esq. of Castle Martyr, co. Kildare, of a daughter.-The lady of B. Shaw, esq. of a son.

Married] In Dublin, O.H. Tottenham, esq. eldest son of Loftus T. esq. to Dorothea, only child of the late Geo. Crowe, esq. of Butfield, co. Clare.—Jas. Butler, esq. son of Sir Rich. B. bart. to Eliza, only daughter of B. B. Hill, sq. of Lower Gardiner-street. —G. F. Brooke, esq. to Jane, eldest daugh ter of the late Rich. Grace, esq. of Queen's County.

At Portglenone, Rob. Smyth, esq. of Pomeroy, co. Tyrone, to Mrs. O'Hara, relict of John O'H. eq. of Mount Haian.

At Cork Ambrose Evans, esq. to Miss Gow, daughter of John G. esq.-Rich. Har ris, esq M. D. to Catherine, daughter of the late Thos. Chatterton, esq.

At Kilworth, Lieut. J. C. Stewart, of the 84th reg. to Anna Maria, daughter of John Lowring, esq. of Hillsborough, co. Cork.

At Woodstown, co. Waterford, Wm. Blacker, esq. of Woodbrook, high sheriff of Wexford, to Eliz. Ann, daughter of R. & Carew, esq. M. P. for the latter county.

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Died] At the Ursulan Convent, Cork, Mrs. Anne Coppinger, one of the religious of that establishment, and aster to the Catholic Bishop of Cloyne and Ross.

At Castle Comi, Rob. Powell, esq. late of Prospect, co. Limerick.

At Bindon, Jus. Ormsby, esq. surveyor of

excise.

In Dublin, Sir Francis Hopkins, bart. of Ashbury lodge, co. Meath.-Sir Wm. Worthington, an aiderman of Dublin.

At Retiero, near Dublin, Sir Edward Newnhain, many years M. P. for the county of Dublin, 84.

At Ennis, Simon l'earce Creagh, esq.
At Rockford, co. Dublin, Mrs. Dance,
wife of Jas. D. esq.

At Kilkenny, Dennis Cassin, esq.
At Ballinkrokig, co. Cork, Garrett R.
Barry, esq.

At Greenhills, co. Donegal, Jas, Hamilton, esq. one of the oldest magistrates and deputy governor of the county of Tyrone.

ABROAD.

Birth.] At Madrid, the lady of Wm. Duff Gordon, esq. M P. of a son.

Married.] At Lucca, John Williams, esq.

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acting apothecary to the forces in Italy, to Anna Priscilla, second daughter of the late R. Porter, esq. of Leghorn.

At Gottenburg, Jas. Dickson, esq. to Eleonore, daughter of Sir Chas. Bagge.

Died.] At Tours, in France, where he had arrived only two days before, suddenly Admiral Rogers.

At Manheim, bis Highness Henry XLIII. Prince of Reuss, Flauen, &c.

At sea, off the Cape of Good Hope, Capt. Rob. Rankine, of the Union East Indtaman.

At sea, on his passage to Bombay and Ceylon, the Rev. Thos. Coke, LL.D. an eminent minister in the connection of the Wesleyan Methodists.

At New Orleans, Louisiana, the French general, Humber, who commanded the French force which invaded Ireland in 1798. At sea, Sir John Scott, bart. midshipman on board his majesty's frigate Rhin.

At Ostend, John Ferguson, esq. paymaster of the 2d batt. 79th reg.

A few hours after the retreat of our troops from Washington, Major-gen. Brown, of the 85th reg. who was so severely wounded at Bladensburg, that he could not be removed.

NATURALIST'S MONTHLY REPORT.
SEPTEMBER 18 TO OCTOBER 18.

Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine.
And grateful clusters swell with flools of wine;
Now blushing berries paint the yellow grove.

September 19.-I was this day much amused in observing the rapid progress made by a garden spider, in weaving her vertical web. The circular part was not less than a foot in diameter; and after the outer lines of it were formed the whole was completed, and the animal at rest in the centre, and on the look-out for prey, in somewhat more than twenty minutes. I shook the spider off upon the ground, in the expectation that she would scarcely be able to find the web again; but in the course of a very short time she recovered her station.

September 21.-Walnuts begin to ripen, but the greater part will not be ripe for several days to come. The leaves of the sycamore begin to change their colour and fail.

September 22.-Grapes ripen against south walls.

I am informed that the lapwings have left the low grounds, and frequent the uplaud parts of the country in great abundance.

September 24.-A storm of thunder in the evening.

September 25.-Young martins still continue in their nests.

The fern, (pteris aquilina,) has assumed its brown autumnal colour, and now gives a rich and vivid glow to the heathy and uncultivated parts of the country. Sportsmen, in several parts of the west of England, complain of being much bitten by a species of tick, nearly as large as those which occasionally infest the skin of dogs. These animals, which are said to be principally found amongst the grass, adhere to the legs, and fix their hold so firmly that it is no casy matter to separate them without leaving some part of the body behind.

September 29.-Several shoals of herrings have been seen off the southern coasts of England, and a few of the fish have been caught.

September 30. The leaves of the elm begin to fall. In most parts of the country the woods have now assumed their autumnal colours, the leaves of the oak are yellowish green, of the hazel yellow, of the plane tawney, of the sycamore brownish,

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Agricultural Report.

[Nov. 1, of the clm orange, of the maple pale yellow, of the hawthorn tawney yellow, of the ash lemon colour, of the willow hoary, and of the hornbean bright yellow,

This day the wind was high and scattered the leaves of the trees in every direc tion.

October 4.-Salmon still continue to be brought to market. They have been unusually abundant this year. In London the price at one time was only sevcopence per pound.

October 9-Swallows and martins were seen flying about in great numbers. A young swallow was caught

No herrings have vor appeared off the western shores of Hampshire.

October 10.-A woodenck was seen.

The berries of the holly have assumed their beautiful scarlet colour. Chesnuts ripen. Walnuts are also cipe.

October 12.-House flies seek out warm places, and collect in great numbers on the sunny sides of doors and window frames, and run about the hearths and other places near the fire.

Notwithstanding the sharp frosts, there have been during the last month, and in the begining of the prescut, the turnips still co tinue to suffer much injury from the black caterpillar.

October 15.-Herrings are brought to the London markets in great abundance. October 17.-More young wild ducks have been seen this year on the heaths of the south-western parts of Hampshire than usual.

The fishermen of this county say that there has been a greater scarcity of prawns than they have known for several years past.

Suails begin to experience the effect of the cold, and to seek out for their winter quarters. The rats also are returning to the barns and out-houses, from their summer excursion to the fields,

There have not yet been any floods sufficient to bring down the shoals of eels which at this season usually begin their ungration to the sea.

The weather has been very different in the west of England, and in the neghbourhood of Loudon. Near London there has been very little rain, whilst in the west there was rain more or less nearly every day from the 20th of September to the end of the mouth.

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The dry weather through the early part of last month enabled the farmers in the most backward districts to secure the latter harvest in the best manner, and also the most favourle for the wheat sowing upon clay soils, which so greatly predommate for that culture in this ishin b The young wheats come up well on the early sown breadths; but the clover-lays in the southern counties could not be sown on account or the dry weather. The produce of last harvest rises a very interior sam ple, even for seed, by reason of the mildew.

Barley yields abundantly; the quality sound and fine, except on those farms where the crops were too large, being there much laid and hedge-grown. Oats are a full average crop, but the quality rather inferior.

Beans are a large crop, and well harv sted.

Peas are a produttive crop, the fine quality being more free from the maggot than in some preceding years.

Turnips, and the whole of the brassien tribe, have recovered much from the blue fly and mildew, with which they were affected in some situations in the preceding months. Turnips under the drill culture have not suffered so much from the late dry weather as sown broad-cast, having u ore soil round their roots, which retained a due depice of moisture.

Corn Exchange, Oct. 24-Wheat, f reign 50s. to 785.; English 60s. to 795; Old English 86s. Old Rye 50s. to 42s.; New 48s. Bailey 26s, to 34s.; New 3. Malt 62s. to 748. White Pease 53, to (4s.; Grey . 8×, to 48s. Tick Beans 37s. to 47s. Feed Oats 19s. to 295.; Poland 21s. to 32. Fine flour 70s. to 755.

Seconds 65s. to 70s.

Smithfield Market. Oct. 24.- Beef 4:. to 5s. Mutton 3, to 6s. Veal 5s to 6s. Gd. Pork 7s. tu 8a.

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Chemical Report.

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Haymarket, Oct. 24.-May 31. to 51. Straw 11. 10s. to 21. Clover 51. to 71. 10s. Hops, new Pockets.-Kent 71. to 91. 155. Sussex 61. 63. to 81. 10s. Farnham 10l. to 131.

CHEMICAL REPORT.

At the desire of the French minister of the interior and minister for war, a committee of the class of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics of the National Institute, was some time since appointed to examine whether zinc might be substituted without detriment for tim, in vessels used for culinary and other purposes. Though this metal has been condemned as noxious by men of undoubted abilities, yet the ease with which it may be wrought and the abundance of the mines in the French territories, have procured it warm advocates among interested persons, who have stream ously endeavoured to introduce their manufactured goods into large

establishments.

The results of the experiments made by the committee in this examination were

as follow:

1. Distilled water was put into a saucepan, which was placed on a sand-bath, and kept at a beat of only 35 to 40 degrees of the centrigrade thermometer, until reduced by evaporation to one-fourth of the original quantity. The remainder, when cool, was poured out, when the bottom and surrounding part of the saucepan as high as the sand-bath, were found covered with perfect hydrate of zinc, in which a metallic taste, slightly acid, was distinguishable.

2. Cold distilled vinegar, which is much weaker than that in common use, diluted with sixteen times as muci distilled water, formed in twelve hours a white stripe round the saucep in. When placed on the sand-bath this stripe was considerably increased. The liquor being filtered and tried by prussiate of potash immediately yielded an abun fant white, flaky, precipitate. The same effect was produced by the addition of solution of potash.

3. A very weak solution of cream of tartar in distilled water, put cold into the saucepan, formed in twelve hours a stripe of white saline matter; and the addition of prussiate of otash to the liquor when filtered produced an abundant precipi

tate.

4. A very thin plate of zinc put into a very weak cold solution of cream of tartar, afforded the same appearances.

5. A similar plate was left for six hours in cold citric acid; the liquor being then diluted with distilled water and filtered gave an abundant precipitate by the addition of potash

6. A very weak cold solution of salt of sorrel formed a saline stripe on the sides of the saucepan. The liquor filtered, after digestion on a slow fire, was rendered turbid by the prussiate of potash.

7. Tartrate of potash, which is much weaker than cream of tartar, in like manner exhibited marks of a commencement of decomposition, by the affinity of its acid with the metal.

8. Cold water, in which one-twentieth of its weight of common salt had been dissolved, left in the vessel twenty-four hours, formed muriate of zinc, which remained in solution after filtration, and manifested itself on the addition of the prussic liquor.

The committee conclude, that as zine is attacked even by the purest water, by the weakest vegetable acids, such as vinegar, the acids of lemon, sorrel, tartar, milk, fruit, even by the salts formed from these acids, by the boiling of animal flesh, by empyreumatic vegetable acids, and by oleaginous substances, when disposed to be rancid, or when changed by heat, it cannot be used without danger for vessels employed in calinary purposes

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It has been contended that oxyd of zinc alone, if mixed with food, does not render it insalubrious; but the committee observe, that even admitting this, we must be aware of concluding that ressels made of this metal can be employed without danger either for measuring liquids or preparing food, since it is not the mere oxyd, or the oxyd united with water in the state of bydrate, that would alter its properties, but rather the compounds produced by their union with the acids which abound in all the ingredients commonly used in cooking. It is well known that the metallic salts, in general, are acid, tart, emetic, corrosive, some of them poi

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