suffer the sarcastic remarks of foreigners, who tell us, that our King's horses are better lodged than our King, that our commercial buildings, as the Bank, &c. and our prisons, as Newgate, are substantially built; but that our political buildings are, like our constitution a confused mass of Gothicism, Grecism, and Anglicism.

We value our constitution, and readily defend that we value Westminster Hall, with the integrity which presides in it: we value the Abbey with the piety which occupies it: but whatever improper adjuncts later periods have erected, and thereby defaced the antient structures, we abandon them to the pick-axe of the improver-yet always provided, that every stroke levelled even at these, be enacted and directed by the conjoined authority of KING, LORDS, and COMMONS. Regulations relating to Medical Professors.

The most prominent features of the plan, which will be submitted to the legislature, for restoring the dignity and character of the medical profession, are, that no person shall be allowed to practise, as a physician, unless he be a graduate of some university of the united kingdom, and has attained the age of 24 years. He must also prove that he has studied physic for five years, two of which shall have been passed in the university.Surgeons are to be placed under similar restrictions, with the exception of being required to pass their time at the university.Apothecaries are to serve five years with some respectable shopkeeper, and shall have studied the different branches of physic in reputable schools for at least a year. The qualifications of an accoucheur are, that he shall have studied for a year under an experienced professor, have assisted in the art, and have attended anatomical lectures for 12 months.

BERKS. Reading, 18 Oct. This day Dr. Richards, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dr. Isham, Warden of All Souls College, accompanied by the Corporation of this borough, met in the council chamber, and, according to a custom which takes place every third year, inspected the appropriation of Archbishop Laud's bequests. At the same time agreeably to the will of the Archbishop, seven servant maids who were born in this town, and one in the town of Wokingham, recommended by the Corporation, received £20 each, having lived in one service three years.

CORNWALL.-Iron Works.-Mr. Joseph Reynolds of Ketley Iron Works, after great trouble and enormous expense, has fully proved, that casting, or letting the iron out of each of his blast furnaces four times in 24 hours, so far improves the quality as to make bar iron equal, if not superior, to that of Sweden or Russia.

CUMBERLAND. In the next session of parliament application is intended to be made for leave to bring in a bill to enable the magistrates of Cumberland to build a bridge, or bridges across the Eden, near Carlisle and Stanwix; and also to erect courts, of justice and a gaol in the city of Carlisle.

DEVON.-Exeter, 16 Oct.—The grand prison of war, now building on Dartmoor under the auspices of the Lord Warden, is likely to give rise to a new town, in that hitherto dreary region. Indeed it is already begun, and is to be called Prince-Town, in complement to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall.

DURHAM.-Potatoes.-A piece of ground containing 863 square yards in the nursery of Messrs. W. Falla, and Co. at Gateshead, has produced this year 104 bushels of potatoes. of an early kind, exclusive of the small ones, which, by the acre, amounts to 583 bushels, or 1054 loads. Previous to planting, the manure that was used was equally spread over the ground, and dug in; the drills were then made shallow with a hoe 2 feet asunder, the potatoes planted, and covered in level. It is to be observed, what perhaps particularly deserves notice, that the seed potatoes were but few of them cut, although rather of a large kind, and those that were divided, were only once cut, and that longitudinally.

GLOCESTERSHIRE. 6th Oct.-A few days since, a large oblong British or Danish barrow was opened in the parish of Duntesbourne Abbots in this county; in which was found a Listvaen, or cromlech, containing about eight or nine bodies of different ages many of the bones of which, and the teeth were entire.

The whole length of the barrow, diago nally, was about fifty yards; straight over the stones about forty; the width about thirty yards; and the distance between the two great stones twenty four feet. The barrow was composed of loose quarry-stones, laid in strata, near the great stones, and brought from a distance. The largest stone which has been long known in the country by the name of the store-stone, is of the same kind as the grey wethers, or Stone-henge; it is flat on the cast side, and round on the side which is in the barrow; is twelve feet high from the base, and fifteen in circumference. The other stone lies almost flat on the ground, and is about three yards square, and one foot thick. This covers the kistracn, which contains the bones, and which is divided into two cells, about four feet square each, and six deep. There is little doubt of its being British;` and it may be called the early altar, or family monument. There are several other barrows in the neighbourhood; and it is singular, that the farm adjoining is called Jack Barrows, probably a

corruption or abbreviation of some other name. The bones are re-buried; but the barrow, and the tomb, will be left open some time longer for the inspection of the curious.

HEREFORD. The anniversary meeting of the Hereford Agricultural Society was most numerously attended. One hundred persons dined at the hotel, in the great room. R. P. Scudamore, M. P. was declared president, and Mr. Linger, vice president for the ensuing year.

The premium for the best new variety of the apple, was awarded to T. A. Knight, Esq; it was a cross, between the Siberian crab and the Lulham pearmain.

The fruit was exquisitely beautiful; and a shoot of one years growth was produced, which measured seven feet and an inch in length. This new variety is deemed a most valuable acquisition, and partakes of all the best qualities of the parent trees. Mr. Tompkins of Wellington, obtained the premium for exhibiting the best two-years-old heifer; and Mr. Westfaling of Rudhall, for the best pen of fine-wooled ewes. Several labourers in husbandry also acquired premiums for bringing up large families without assistance from their parishes; and for living the greatest number of years in the same places.

LANCASHIRE.-Improvements in the town and port of Liverpool.-There are few of our readers who do not distinctly recollect the great fire which happened on the Goree, or quay of George's Dock, on the 14th Sept. 1802. This conflagration was by far the most tremendous in its appearance, and the most extensive in its devastation, which Liverpool had ever known; and in respect to waste of property, one of the most destructive which had happened in the British dominions since the great fire of London in 1666.

The scite of these extensive piles of buildings after the fire had ceased, presented to the eye, a huge and shapeless mass of ruins, which seemed almost to exclude the hope, or possibility of repairing the mischief, at least in any inoderate number of years. Every stranger who visited Liverpool soon after this event, seemed convinced that the prosperity of the town had received a blow, from which it could not, but at a very distant period, be expected to recover. The immense piles of warehouses then destroyed, had for several years been the admiration of all Europe, and at that time were scarcely to be matched in the whole world.

Under this impression, our readers at a distance will learn with astonishment, that this extensive ruin is now, not only completely repaired, but that the whole of these Tanges of buildings have arisen from their

ashes with improved magnificence and greatly augmented extent. The whole of this task has been completed in less than four years: and of all the various proofs which have been held forth to the world, of the spirit and resources of the town of Liverpool, we consider this as one of the most decisive and unequivocal. At the time of the conflagration, the stone casement, of the whole of that large and beautiful range which fronts to George's Dock, had been erected, but the super-incumbent warehouses, had only been built on that division which reaches from the bottom of Brunswick Street to Water Street, and on about one fourth of the other division. The whole of this, except the part last mentioned was entirely demolished. But the entire range from Brunswick Street to Water Street, and from Brunswick Street to Moore Street, is now completed, and for elegance, convenience, and situation, there certainly is not such another range of warehouses in Europe. The enormous piles which have been lately erected on the West India and Wapping Docks in London, are indeed vastly superior in size and extent, but for beauty and conThe venience they are not to be compared. new row on the Goree is, including the two divisions, in length nearly two hundred yards, of a proportionate depth, and in height six stories exclusive of the cellars and garrets. It is built with exact uniformity, on a rustic stone casement, which incloses to the front, a fine flagged arcade of 13 feet in width, very convenient as a promenade for the merchants in wet weather. This piazza is formed by alternate great and small arches, the former ten feet nine inches in breadth, the latter full five feet eight inches This intermixture has a pleasing appearance to the eye, and detracts architecture. The whole pile has the convemuch from the heaviness of that species of nience of being open to a wide pavement, both in front and rear. The front rooms of the lower story are used as counting-houses by the merchants who occupy the warehouses. The noble range of buildings belonging to Mr. Dawson, and others, which stood behind the pile we have just described, was also entirely consumed, and the whole of this ground, except a few yards, has likewise been com pletely rebuilt.

The new buildings it is true do not reach the enormous elevation which in the old was so much admired; but this deficiency may justly be reckoned an improvement. The extreme height of the former warehouses, was not only beyond the bounds of just propor tion, but occasioned a variety of inconveniences; and particularly rendered the danger and mischiefs of a fire much more alarming and distressing.

On the whole, we cannot but repeat, that we consider these buildings, as a most extraor- .

tended to be made to parliament in the ensuing session, for leave to bring in a bill for making and maintaining a navigable cut, or canal, from the river Tay, to Lock Earl, in the county of Perth,

Tunnel. A work. in the highest degree curious and important, is now in contemplation for the improvement of Scotland. It is a tunnel, or subterraneous communication under the Frith of Forth, to be formed at a little distance from Queensferry. It is proposed to begin this work immediately opposite Rosyth Castle, on the north side of the Forth. The distance between shore and shore is two miles, or about 1,800 fathoms, The capital required will be about £160,000 and the work will require about four years to

execute.

ISLE OF MAN.

A remarkably large herring was lately taken by a Manx boat. It measured 16 inches in length, 9 inches round the body, and weighed 1 lb. 24 ozs.

We are glad to hear that the manufactories in the Isle of Man, are in a progressive state of improvement, as different mills have lately been erected for spinning by water and machinery, both in the linen and woollen branches. Among the former we have to notice two new mills lately erected (about two miles from Douglas) by Messrs. Edward and James Moore, one for spinning flax and tow, by machinery, upon the principle of what is called the Leeds plan; and the other as a general bleaching mill. These concerns got to work last week, and from the number of people employed in the different branches of this manufactory, it cannot fail of proving of material advantage to the Island.

doubt not but in time the advantage of unrestrained intercourse between the two islands I will manifest themselves to the incalculable advantages of both.

It has long been observed with concern by the friends of the linen trade, that the coarse branch, which forms a very considerable part of it, has been regularly declining; owing principally to the inferiority of the fabric, when compared with the Russian, English, and Scotch linens, and as this inferiority was occasioned by the badness of our coarse yarn, it was evident, that the only measure which could be adopted to rescue it from impending ruin, would be the introduction of niachines for spinning flax. Under this impression, that distinguished friend to his country, John Foster, whose attention has ever been alive to the improvement of our staple manufacture, has exerted himself in promoting grants from the Linen Board for the encouragement of those machines. This has had so good an effect, that several of them are already erected, and there is now a prospect of their bring established extensively in various parts of the kingdom.

As the superior quality of yarn spun by those machines must give it a decided prefe rence to that spun by the hand, and the great quantity likely to be produced by them may eventually interfere with the employment of females, J. Foster has wisely guarded against that inconvenience, by granting looms to such females as have been weaving last year, and thereby holding out a strong inducement to others to follow their example. This measure has met with the approbation of every intelligent person in the trade, from the persuasion that it will be attended with the best consequences. The female who exchanges her usual employment at the wheel, for the more laborious, but more profitable one of weaving, will be gratified by this valuable reward of her industry, and a spirit of emulation excited among the sex. It is a well known fact, that the earnings of a spinner of coarse yarn, seldom, if ever, exceeded 4d. a day, and it is equally well ascertained, that an active young woman can, at the loom, earn from 16d. to 2s.; the exchange, therefore, must be greatly to their advantage. Much praise is due to the Linen Board for their continued exertions in favour of our staple manufacture. There are upwards of 1200 claimants for these premiums, which proves that the manufacturers are convinced of the necessity of changing the employment of their females, and that the measure, as it was taken up by the Linen Board, was highly expedient. Several hundred looms have already been made and distributed under the superintendance of the Inspector-General.

Inland Navigation.-We are happy to see it announced by advertisement from the Directors-General of Inland navigation, that the great difficulty upon the navigation between Limerick and Killaloe, the making a cut through the rock at Ponteen, has been overcome, and it is now opened for trade.

Three vessels with heavy cargoes from Dublin, were towed through it by horses to Limerick, an earnest of the advantages to be expected from such a communication between the two cities. The counties of Galway, Clare, and Tipperary, will speedily profit by this navigation, and when the grand Canal Company shall have fulfilled their contract with the Directors-General for the navigation from Athlone to Portumna, which they are forwarding with great spirit, a capital navigation will be opened by the Shannon, from Lanesborough to Limerick, a tract of about 80 Irish miles, immediately communicating with the counties of Roscommon, Longford, Westmeath, Kings County, Galway, Tipperary, Clare, and Limerick, and from Shannon harbour, near Banagher, with Dublin by the Grand Canal. We learn further with great satisfaction, that the Royal Canal Company have carried their works to Mullingar, from whence to Dublin, their whole line will soon be opened.

They are also rapidly advancing the construction of an aqueduct and harbour at the Broad-stone, and a communication with the tide-water at the Liffey.

We learn with equal satisfaction, that the works for the navigation of the Barrow, are advancing with no less of success. prospect When that shall be completed a navigation will be opened, communicating with Dublin by the Grand Canal, with Athy, Carlow, and Ross, upon the Barrow; with Inishogue and Thomas-town, upon the Nore; and with Waterford, Carrick, and Clonmel, upon Suir.

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A junction of the Royal Canal with the Shannon, and the completing the navigation of that great river from Lanesborough to Lough Allan, are still wanting, and we do not doubt will be considered with just attention.

Aqueduct.-The Company of Undertakers of the Royal Canal Company, have so far proceeded in the work of the aqueduct which is to cross the Glassnevin Road, near their harbour at the Broad-stone, as to be nearly ready to strike the supporters of the centre arch, which crosses the road, and through which the carriages are to pass.

This arch is 30 feet span, by 17 feet high; there are two minor arches, one at each side of the centre, 13 feet high, by 7 feet span, intended for foot passengers.

• Over these arches is to be an inverted arch,

through which the water is to convey the different boats into the great reservoir or bason, which has been sunk between that spot and the building of the House of Industry.

The whole of this extensive and useful improvement will be completed by the ensuing. month of March.

Agriculture. A public lecture on agricul ture is delivered twice a week in Dublin, under the patronage of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, and something of a similar kind, is said to be in contemplation in the principal towns of Ireland.

New Silver Mine.-About three months since, a man employed as a herd on the lands of Shank-hill, picked up what seemned to him a small stone or pebble, the external appearance of which afforded no reason to suppose that it had any value; but from the uncommon weight, compared with its size, the man was induced to bring it home, and it remained in his possession until the beginning of this month, when being accidentally shewn to a miner, and its value ascertained, a minute search was made, and this hidden source of wealth explored and brought to view. The richness of the mine, and the extent and depth of the vein, promise to make ample amends for the labour and expence of working it; as from an analysis made by several eminent chemists and mineralogists, the natural rude and unwrought material is calcuto be worth upwards of twenty-two pounds per ton. The mine is now in a forward state of working; and being considered a matter of national importance, it is sincerely to be hoped the proprietor's exertions may be encouraged and patronised by the well-wishers to the prosperity of Ireland; this mine will also afford permanent employment to a number of poor but industrious individuals in that neighbourhood, who are now without any means of a comfortable subsistence.

Lead Mine.-A lead mine has been discovered recently on the lands of Ballycoris, in the county of Wicklow, the property of Mr. Williams. The ore has undergone the necessary trials, and is expected to prove a very valuable discovery to the proprietor.

Longevity.-Thomas Beatty of Drumcon dra near Dublin, has nearly compleated his 102d, year. He walks as upright as most men in the prime of life, and has not lost a tooth. His eldest surviving son is 73 years of age, and his youngest not quite two years old. His wife is pregnant at this time. This surprising veteran was originally a weaver, but has generally worked as a gardener, in which capacity he daily attends the Dublin market. told a gentleman who conversed with him last week, that one of his trees this season, had produced 1500, apples,

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