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directly under the culprit's chin, and the 

 wind-pipe being only thereby partially 

 compressed, the wretched man was left to 

 struggle into eternity in horribly protracted 

 agony, for full 18 minutes ! 



SCOTLAND. Aug. 20. A numerous 

 meeting (about 1000 persons,) of the citizens 

 of Edinburgh took place in Stevenson's 

 Hotel to commemorate the late revolution 

 in France ; the Lord Provost presided, 

 u who came," he said, " as chief ma- 

 gistrate to express publicly that opinion 

 which he had expressed in private of the 

 moderation evinced by the French people 

 in the triumph so dearly bought by them." 

 Several resolutions were unanimously passed 

 eulogizing the event ; one of them was to 

 communicate their approbation to the 

 mayor, municipality and people of Paris, 

 others restrained them from making any 

 tender of pecuniary aid, by the conviction 

 that it was not necessary. 



A penny-a-head subscription has been 

 set on foot in this city, on approved Utili- 

 tarian principles, to buy caddis and ban- 

 dages for the wounded citizens of Paris. 

 Flaming placards appear on every street 

 corner, inviting each generous - hearted 

 worthy individual, who has nothing else to 

 do with his money, to drop a penny into 

 the freedom fund. Many plain-going folks 

 think it would be rather more becoming to 

 give their superfluous cash to our own In- 

 firmary, than to a French hospital ; and as 

 these notions happen to be very general, the 

 collection of Peter's pence is progressing 

 but languidly. Edinburgh Evening Post, 

 Aug. 21. 



Burghead, August 3 The fishing con- 

 tinues unprecedentedly good on the west 

 coast of Caithness and towards Cape Wrath, 

 many boats having caught more than their 

 usual take for the whole season. Should 

 the weather continue good, and a. proper 

 supply of stock be brought round, there can 

 be no doubt that the fishing on that coast 

 will far exceed any thing hitherto known 

 The fifty-six boats fishing here have caught 

 from 1100 to 1200 crans, on an average of 

 about 21 crans per boat, since the com- 

 mencement of the present season, which is 

 considered by the curers to promise a 

 plentiful fishing. At Lossiemouth and the 

 different creeks eastward, the fishing has 

 been eminently successful. On the 31st 

 ultimo, an average was taken of the boats 

 fishing at Findochty and Cullen, and it 

 amounted to 100 crans per boat, a take 

 hitherto unprecedented at so early a period 

 of the fishing season. 



Summary of Religious Belief of Persons 

 above Ten Years of Age in Scotland, 1830. 

 Established Church. Belonging to Parish 

 Churches, Chapels of Ease, and Chapels of 



Missionaries, employed in the Highlands 

 and Islands, 00,000 Presbyterian Dis- 

 senters. Reformed Presbyterian Synod, or 

 Cameronians Secession Church Original 

 Seceders Original Burgher Seceders and 

 Relief Body, 330,000. Miscellaneous 

 Sectaries. Independents and Baptists 

 Boreans and Grlassites Swedenbourgians 

 New Sectaries with no distinct title Me- 

 thodists and Jews, 100,800 Apostolic 

 Churches. Roman Catholics, 100,000. 

 Episcopalians, 60,000. Unitarians those 

 holding Socinian opinions Pure disbe- 

 lievers, and those who attend no place of 

 public worship of any description, either 

 from want of seats, or want of will, though 

 generally baptized Christians, and of Presby- 

 terian lineage, 509,100 Total 2,000,000. 



IRELAND The following extract of 

 a letter from Kanturk appears in the Cork 

 Chronicle : " The situation of the town is 

 deplorable, for out of a population of 2,800 

 souls, of which the town alone consists, not 

 less than 1,200 are entered as paupers on 

 the books of the relief committee, and nearly 

 one-third of the inhabitants of the country 

 district are in the same situation ; not far 

 from this, persons were known to bleed the 

 cattle for the purpose of subsisting on the 

 blood, and entire families lived for weeks 

 on the coarser leaves of cabbage, without 

 any other aliment, and the poor creatures 

 may be seen with sunken eyes, haggard and 

 emaciated countenances, the hue of which 

 almost resembles the unwholesome diet on 

 which they drag out a miserable existence." 



We have received communications from 

 some of the prisoners confined in the City 

 Marshalsea, complaining of the severity of 

 their sufferings from want of food, and even 

 of straw for bedding. They describe them- 

 selves as starving, and labouring under all 

 the other evils which their destitute con- 

 dition in confinement at this season can 

 inflict. Many of these unfortunate beings 

 are parents, and when their poor children 

 join them to pass the night in their wretched 

 home, as many as 40 individuals are often 

 crowded into the space of one narrow room ! 

 They state that the greater number of them 

 are confined for the amount of rent they 

 were unable to pay for their wretched hovels, 

 and that the debts of many are not greater 

 than 2 or 3 shillings, while none exceed 

 2 ! ! Here is a state of misery absolutely 

 frightful human beingsflung into a noxious 

 prison for a few shillings, without means of 

 subsistence, and their families perishing ! 

 They have claimed our advocacy with the 

 charitable public, and we state the facts 

 laid before us as the fittest appeal to the 

 compassion and services of the merciful. 

 Dublin Morning Register, Aug. 4. 



