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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

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LONDON.

Martin, the distinguished painter, a few years since, gave publicity to a plan for laying out, improving, and beautifying Hyde and St. James's Parks, and, at the same time, for supplying the north-west portion of the metropolis with pure water from the river Coln. To have secured either part of the scheme would have been worth half a million of money to the country; for the adoption of the whole, scarcely any pecuniary sacrifice (and it would only have been a sacrifice pro tempore) could have been too great. As the English are fond of half measures, we marvel that the inferior half was not accepted, and the superior rejected. However, we had become economists" penny wise and pound foolish "-and nothing was done. Respecting the water, Mr. Martin's plan was, to take the supply at Denham, where the whole body of the Coln meets, and tunnelling through the hill above Uxbridge, proceed at once to Northalt, from thence to London using one bank, and a small portion of the bed of the canal." With that proposition he now combines another: that is, to make the line by which the water is to come to London, serve also for a railway, by forming a roof over the aqueduct, of strength sufficient to support the iron rails, and the carriages to move thereon, the whole distance to Denham, where the railways should branch off, that for the north still using the banks of the canal, and that to the west going across the country to Windsor, and thence to Bristol." The advantages of this scheme are numerous. Mr. Martin - whose views respecting the health of the metropolis are exceedingly important-is also engaged in the formation of a Company (the Thames Conservancy Company) for preventing the pollution of the river. It is proposed to effect this by constructing sewers on the bank of the Thames, in front of all the drains whose contents are now discharged into the stream. A return of 201. per cent. is estimated upon the capital to be in. vested.

The usual meeting of proprietors of London Dock Stock has been held for the purpose of declaring a dividend for the last half-year. The Chairman presented a very favourable report of the

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article should maintain. In pigs there was no alteration in price from the previous quarter's quotation.-Shrewsbury Paper.

SUSSEX.

Ancient British Canoe in the possession of the Earl of Egremont.-The canoe discovered in a bed of silt at North Stoke, near Arundel, in this county, a few months since, is now at Petworth Place, the Earl of Egremont having caused it to be removed and placed under shelter, that so interesting a relic may be preserved from injury. This canoe is nearly 35 feet in length, 4 wide in the centre, 3 feet 3 inches wide at one extremity, and 2 feet 10 inches at the other, and is about 2 feet deep. It is formed of the single trunk of an oak, which has been hollowed out, and brought to its present shape with great labour; it is evidently the workmanship of a very early period, and in all probability was constructed by some of the earliest inhabitants of our island, before the use of iron or even brass was known; the original tree must have been 15 or 16 feet in circumference. Three projections left in the interior of the boat, appear to have been designed for seats; it is manifest therefore that the persons who constructed this vessel were unacquainted with the art of forming boards. The canoe is so similar to some of those which were fabricated by the aborigines of North America, when first visited by Europeans, that we can have no hesitation in concluding that it was formed in a similar manner; namely, by charring such portions of the tree as were necessary to be removed, and then scooping them out with stone instruments: no doubt this canoe belongs to the same period as the flint and stone instruments called celts, which are found in the tumuli on the South Downs. This boat is now in the state of peat or bog-wood, and we much fear will fall to pieces, if not imbued with oil, coal-tar, or some similar ingredient.

YORKSHIRE.

It is, probably, very little known that an extensive manufacture is carried on in this neighbourhood, by which old rags are made into new cloth. Yet such

is the fact, and to so great an extent does this manufacture prevail, that at least five millions pounds weight of woollen rags are yearly imported from Germany and other parts for this purpose. The rags

are subjected to a machine which tears them in pieces, and reduces them nearly to their primitive state of wool; and they are then with a small admixture of new wool, again carded, slubbed, spun, and woven; and they make a cloth not very strong, but answering very well for paddings, shoddies, and other purposes of that nature. The ingenuity deserves praise, which thus resurrectionizes cloth, and gives it a second existence. There is nothing whatever of fraud in the manufacture; it is a justifiable economy to make the material go as far as it will. The manufacture is carried on chiefly in the neighbourhood of Batley.-Leeds Mercury.

A beautiful tesselated pavement has been uncovered by some workmen at Meux, in Holderness, which was doubtless formerly the floor of the Abbey Church.

IRELAND.

In excavating for the reservoir of the water-works on Cromwell's Fort, the workmen found this week the skeleton of a man and horse alongside each other. The human skeleton, it would appear, was in complete armour when buried there, from the mouldering fragments that were still around it. The breast and lower part of the body was covered with armour somewhat resembling the ancient thorax, and a plain silver ring found on one of the joints of the finger, with the following letters rudely engraven, "NOT. VALV. BVT. VERTV," which probably means "not value but virtue," and which we take to be the wearer's motto, in the old English style. -Limerick Star.

Irish Cattle. The following is an account of the numbers of pigs, sheep, cattle, and horses, imported into Bristol from Ireland, during the months of April, May, and June last, as reported in the Bristol Presentment : — Pigs, 37,441; sheep, 1,342; cattle, 738; horses, 97.

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Arts, Fine.

Useful.

See Fine Arts

See Useful Arts

Arundell's Discoveries in Asia Minor, no-
ticed, 511

Astley and Ducrow, 461

Austin, Sarah, Report of the state of Public
Instruction in Prussia, translated by, 375

Babington, Dr., statue to, 105

Baines's Companion to the Lakes, noticed,
507

Ball, a country one, on the Almack's plan,
474

Bank notes in circulation, 428

of England Branch Banks, 248]
Bankrupts, 122, 256, 390, 528
Bannisters, the, 460
Belgium, population of, 539

and Western Germany in 1833,505
Bible, Illustrations of the, 104, 513
Biographical Particulars of celebrated Per-
sons lately deceased:-the Marquis of
Breadalbane, 131; the Earl of Galloway,
ib.; Sir Edward Thornbrough, ib.; Fran-
cis Douce, Esq., 132; Mrs. Burns, ib.;
Admiral Sir R. Goodwin Keats, G.C.B.,
267; John Fuller, 268; Rudolph Acker-
mann, Esq., ib.; Admiral Brooking, 401;
Thos. Stothard, Esq., R.A., ib.; Richard
Aug.-VOL. XLI. NO. CLXIV.

Lander, 402; Mrs. Fletcher, 403; Sir
Gilbert Blane, 540; Lieutenant Sidney
Parry, ib.; Mr. R. Rylance, 541
Birch, its graceful appearance, 524
Bishops, speech to the, 363
Blackwall, new quay at, 134
Bone manure, 389

Breadalbane, the Marquis of, his death, 131
Bread Tax exposed, 101

British Museum, receipts of, 249, 383
Brooking, Admiral, his death, 401
Brother Tragedians, noticed, 376

Brougham, Lord Chancellor, and Earl Grey,

166

Brussels, riots at, 130

Brydges, Sir Egerton, his Autobiography,
97, 369

Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, no-
ticed, 98

Bunn, Mr., and Mr. Yates, 163
Burford's Panorama of Boothia, 245
Burns, Life and Works of, noticed, 233
Mrs., some account of, 132

Cabinet alterations, 361

commotion, 499

Campbell's Life of Mrs. Siddons, 471
Canadas, accounts from, 128, 265
Canoe, ancient British, 544
Captives in India, noticed, 506
Cavern, singular, 406

Chapters from the Note-Book of a Deceased
Lawyer, 23

Charities, commission for inquiring into, 272
Chevalier barley, value of, 119

Cholera, return of, 502

Colburn's Modern Novelists, noticed, 375
Colleges, the two London ones, 228
Colonies, state of the, 127, 265, 398, 538
Colosseum, description of the, 242
Combustion, new law of, 381
Commentary, Monthly, 87, 224, 360, 497
Commercial and Money Market Report,
123, 257, 391, 529

Cooke, G. F., and his Keeper, 458
Cosmorama, exhibition of the, 243
Court Movements, 365

Covent Garden Theatre, performances at,
107, 379

2 P

Crime, machinery of, in England, 77; state
of, in the Metropolis, 112

Critical Notices of New Publications, 97,
233, 369, 505

Deaths, 133, 270, 406, 542

and Marriages, number of, 87
Debtor's Experience, the, 149, 353, 483
Democracy of England, 409

Dialogues of the Living, No. I. 63; No. II.
155; No. III. 309

Diorama, exhibition of the, 243

D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, noticed,
98

Mr. jun., the "Infernal Mar-

riage" by, 293, 431
Dissenting Minister, the, 171
Ditton, Lines to, 304
Diversions, Diverse, 224

Dobereiner, Professor, discovery of, 114
Don Carlos at Home, 501

Douce, Francis, Esq., some account of, 132
Drama, the, 105, 246, 379, 514

Drury Lane Theatre, performances at, 105,

379

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Gee, Mr., the case of, 229

Geographical Society, meetings of, 109, 518
Geological Society of Dublin, 382
Germany, publications in, 250
Gilbert Gurney, 274, 441

Gleanings in Natural History, noticed, 377
Glimpses of Lafayette, and of a few of his
friends, 315

Grapes, disease in, 118

Great Britain, state of affairs in, 124, 258,
392, 531

Greenwich Railway, progress of the, 271
Grey, Lord, and Mr. O'Connell, 155
Grimaldi, Signor, particulars of, 459
Guido, Sorelli, translation of a poem by, 98

Hamiltons, a Novel, noticed, 512
Harrison, Peter, his trial for robbery, 26
Haymarket Theatre, performances at, 379,
514

Hemans, Mrs., the Palace of the Maremma
by, 17; National Lyrics and Songs for
Music by, 99; a Series of Sonnets by, 428
Heroes at Lisbon, 227

Herschel, Sir J., his arrival at the Cape of
Good Hope, 111

House of Commons, proceedings in, 126,
261, 394, 534; petitions presented to, 248
Lords, proceedings in, 125, 258,

393, 531

the late scenes in the, 190

Hudson, incidents on the, 465
Hyder Saibe, an Indian Tale, 476
Hypochondria, hints on, 212

Idyls, London, 84

Iguanodon, skeleton of one, 407
Incidents in general, 497

on the Hudson, 465

Infernal Marriage, the, 293, 431

Inhabitants of a Country Town, by Miss
Mitford, 171

Ireland and Repeal, 95

Irish Melodies, noticed, 510

Islington, new cattle-market at, 134

Jamieson, Mrs., her Visits and Sketches at
Home and Abroad, noticed, 372
Jews in Saxony, petition of the, 114
Justice, Freaks of, 363

Kean, recollections of, 51

and the Kembles, 463

Keats, Admiral Sir R. G., G.C.B., Biogra
phical Memoir of, 267

Kemble and a Dramatic Aspirant, 456
Kembles, the, 227

Kemp Town, destruction of the cliffs be-
yond, 272

King Lear, as Shakspeare wrote it, 218
Kyan, Mr., his process for extirpating the
dry-rot, 90

Lafayette, glimpses of, and of a few of his
friends, 315

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Palace of the Maremma, the, 17
Paris, improvements in, 113

Parks, plan for improving the, 543
Patents, new, 255, 527
Performance, promise of, 93
Phenomenon, natural, 271

Philip Van Artevelde, noticed, 373
Play-houses, chit-chat on, 88
Pleasure, a Party of, 321

Poaching and Beer-houses, 136

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Poetry the Palace of the Maremma, by
Mrs. Hemans, 18; the Advent of Win-
ter, 73; the Features, 83; the Zegri
Maid, 100; Martial in London, 180, 341,
470; Ditton, 304; Ode to Mr. Owen, 313;
a Party of Pleasure, 321; Records of Pass-
ing Thought, 428; a Country Ball on the
Almack's Plan, 474

Polish Army, particulars relative to, 130
Poor Rates, statement respecting, 408,
Portugal, affairs of, 89, 130, 399
Post-Office, improvements in the, 383
Premiers, the last, 520

Pritchard's Natural History of Animalcules,
noticed, 239

Provincial Occurrences, 134, 270, 406, 543
Publications, new, critical notices of, 97, 233,
369, 505

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