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Provincial Occurrences : Scotland and Ireland. 



[Nov. 



The quantity used in the melting of copper 

 ore imported from Cornwall, in the manu- 

 facture of tin-plate, forging of iron for various 

 purposes, and for domestic uses, may be cal- 

 culated at 850,000 tons ; which makes 

 altogether the annual consumption of coal 

 in Wales, 1,850,000 tons. The annual 

 quantity of iron manufactured in Great 

 Britain is 690,000 tons. Upwards of 4,000 

 tons of iron have been laid down in the 

 double line of railway between, Liverpool 

 and Manchester, a distance of about thirty 

 miles only. 



The Annual Report, with an appendix, 

 of the Commissioners for the Holyhead 

 road, has just been printed. The result of 

 the improvements made in the road is most 

 favourably spoken of: and in the Appen- 

 dix a Report is given by Mr. Telford. The 

 sums repaid to the Commissioners up to 

 April 5, 1830, on account of advances made 

 by them, amounted to 103,633, the total 

 being formed from these items : From 

 additional postage on letters to Ireland 

 passing over the Menai and Conway bridges 

 67,290 ; from tolls taken at the Menai and 

 Conway bridges 1,103 ; from additional 

 tolls levied on the road between London and 

 Shrewsbury 32,721 ; from additional tolls 

 levied on the road between London and 

 Shrewsbury 2,51 2. The expenditure dur- 

 ing the year, ending last April, amounted 

 to 50,125. 3s. 2d. The building of the 

 Menai bridge, and the new road across the 

 Island of Anglesea, cost 273,826. 19s. Id. 



SCOTLAND The working classes of 



Glasgow recently held a public meeting for 

 Parliamentary Reform. The whole pro- 

 ceedings ware conducted with scrupulous 

 propriety and good order. The petitions to 

 the King and to Parliament were unani- 

 mously carried. There were 11,000 persons 

 present at the meeting. The committee 

 were received with the greatest cordiality 

 by the Lord Provost, the Sheriff Substitute, 

 and Captain Graham ; and the chief magis- 

 trate not only sanctioned the meeting, but 

 said, that they had as good a right to meet 

 and discuss the evils under which they suf- 

 fered as they (the magistrates) had. At the 

 conclusion the committee were thanked for 

 the orderly manner in which the proceed- 

 ings had been conducted. Glasgow Chro- 

 nicle. 



IRELAND There is nothing which 

 we more condemn nothing which we 

 would be more remote from the practice of, 

 than exciting unfounded alarm ; but it does, 

 indeed, appear to us that " We have fallen 

 on evil tongues and evil days" the one 

 producing the other. It is in vain it were 

 criminal, to disguise ftom the friends of 

 peace and good order from those who 

 would not hazard the essential civil and re- 

 ligious liberty which we yet possess for the 

 delusive speculations of a wicked faction, 

 that the country is in a dangerous state : 

 the fears of the government declare it. 



Troops are coming from England, and de- 

 pots and magazines are shifting from places 

 of lesser to those of greater security ; and if 

 yet, in the eleventh hour, vigorous measures 

 be not adopted measures excluding insult 

 and persecution of old and tried loyalty, 

 and favoritism of as old and proven disaffec- 

 tion an attempt towards separation, under 

 cover of a Repeal of the Union, will be 

 made which will deluge the soil of Ireland 

 with the blood of her children. " Horrible 

 imagining!" but more horrible that it is 

 justified by facts Dublin Warder, Oct. 16. 



A dinner has recently been given by the 

 citizens of Cork to Mr. O'Connell, on the 

 subject of the " Repeal of the Union" 

 upwards of 150 gentlemen sat down to 

 table ; after the toast of " O'Connell, and 

 may the people ever stand by him as he 

 stands by the people," he rose and de- 

 livered his sentiments, which, at particular 

 parts, were vociferously cheered. He said, 

 " They say that all Ireland wants Repose. 

 Good God ! what do we want of repose 

 while such evils exist that afflict us ? Why, 

 it was no later than yesterday that I saw, 

 myself, in a miserable parish near Mill- 

 street, upwards of 301. levied and for 

 what ? to support a Church for the im- 

 mense number of fourteen Protestants ! 

 Is, I would ask those quiet persons who talk 

 so much of repose is Repose any remedy 

 for the odious and grinding monopoly of 

 your beggarly Corporation ? Is repose what 

 will destroy nay, prevent, their iniquitous 

 exactions ? Is repose what will dissolve 

 that sacred junta which plot in private 

 against your liberties and immunities as 

 citizens I mean the Friendly Club ? If 

 they want repose, let them give us rights as 

 men if they wish for calm, let them relieve 

 us from the intolerable burthens which have 

 hitherto (but which shall now no more !) 

 prostrated our energies at the feet of our 

 oppressors. In truth, there can be no 

 greater impertinence imagined no greater 

 insult offered to your understandings than 

 to be told by a pampered Aristocrat, that 

 you want Repose. He may want it, when 

 he is filled to repletion with the riches 

 wrung from the exertions of your country 

 but we want it not we'll have none of it. 

 No, gentlemen, the want of Ireland is not 

 Repose, but Agitation quick, spirit-stirring 

 and effective Agitation. It is by Agitation 

 alone we have succeeded in wrenching from 

 them what they have already reluctantly 

 given it is by Agitation alone that we can 

 ever hope to obtain any thing like Re- 

 dress ! ! !" Cork Chronicle. 



The Lord Lieutenant has also issued a 

 proclamation, suppressing a newly-formed 

 Society, calling itself " The Anti-Union 

 Association," a decisive measure which has 

 caused an extraordinary sensation in Dub- 

 lin ; but the power and activity of the 

 Agitators are such as to give rise to serious 

 apprehension for the ultimate fate of the 

 Protestant interests. 



