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had swollen, before the Grand Jury were dis- 

 charged, to 92 person**. 



Died.] At Royston, 79, H. Wortham, esq., 

 formerly Chairman of the County Sessions, and 

 Colonel of the Militia. At Hinxton-housc, 83, 

 C. lluikes.esq. ; he was the last surviving brother 

 of the respected founder of Sunday Schools. At 

 Billericay, 83, Rev. Dr. J. Jenner. 



CORNWALL. 



The following is a statement of the pilchard 

 fishery in the year 1827. Number of scans em- 

 ployed, 186 ; drift boats, 368 ; men employed on 

 board drift-boats, 1,599 ; men employed at sea on 

 scans, 2,672 ; persons on shore, to whom the 

 fishery affords direct employment, 6,350 ; total 

 number of persons employed in the fishery, 10,521 ; 

 cost of scans, boats, &c., .209,840 ; cost of drift- 

 boats and nets, .61,400 ; cost of cellars and other 

 establishments on shore, for carrying on the 

 fishery, .169,975 ; total capital invested directly 

 in the pilchard fishery, .441,215. 



The breakwater at Bude has been nearly all 

 destroyed by the tremendous sea on Sunday, 

 March 2. 



A curious fish has been lately taken and exhi- 

 bited at Bude : its head, which is of an oval shape 

 has the eyes placed quite on the top ; it has three 

 rows of teeth, and underneath its belly project 

 two fins, resembling hands, webbed ; there are also 

 on each side two places similar to pockets, with 

 flaps over, which will contain several quarts of 

 water. 



WALES. 



The banking-house of Messrs. Walter and Co., 

 at Swansea, was entered by means of faise keys, 

 and cash and bills to a very great amount were 

 stolen therefrom, on Sunday evening, Feb. 17, 

 while the owners were attending divine service. 



Died.] At LanvUiangel Crucorney, 1011 Mr. 

 J. Roberts. 



SCOTLAND. 



A tenant in the neighbourhood of Perth, under 

 Sir David Moncrieffe, having his farm infested 

 with rabbits, which annually destroyed his crop 

 to a great extent, had made repeated complaints 

 on the subject to his landlord, without effect. 

 The tenant, at last, seeing no other remedy, 

 employed a person to snare and destroy the 

 rabbits ; and happening accidentally to kill a hare 

 in one of his gins, the Game Association sued him 

 and his employer for penalties for " hunting and 

 hawking." In this the Game Association were 

 defeated ; but they succeeded in getting him fined 

 in the statutory penalty for having game in his 

 possession. A complaint was also made, in the 

 name of the proprietor, to the Court of Session, 

 and, on the pretence that the tenant was hounding 

 and destroying the game upon his farm, an inter- 

 dict against him was obtained from the Lord 

 Ordinary. The tenant denied that he had ever 

 hunted or destroyed game upon his farm ; but 

 admitted that, in order to protect his property, he 

 had employed a person to destroy the rabbits, 

 which were ferae natures, wild beasts, that any 

 person had a right to kill. The plea that rabbits 

 are game was then resorted to ; but the Court 

 unanimously found otherwise, continued the inter- 

 dict only in so far as regarded the killing of 

 game, and decreed the landlord to pay the tenant's 

 expenses. Thus, tenants who have their crops 

 injured by rabbits are entitled, at their own 



hands, to rl<l themselves of such vermin, without 

 consulting their landlord. Perth Courier. 



In a circular lately issued by Principal Baird, 

 at the desire of the Committee of the General 

 Assembly for increasing the means of education 

 in Scotland, particularly the Highlands and 

 Islands of Scotland, it is stated, that there are 

 above 128,000 persons of all ages in the north 

 who can neither read nor write Gaelic or Eng- 

 lish ; that of young persons from the age of five 

 to 15 years, there are 25,000 in the same deplo- 

 rable condition and though the Committee of 

 the General Assembly have instituted 51 schools, 

 above 100 more have been urgently applied for. 

 Here is a wide field for benevolent exertions. 



The Greenock Bank was entered by means of 

 false keys, on Sunday morning, and plundered to 

 the amount of .30,000 ! 



Died."] At Tynninghame, 75, Charles Earl of 

 Haddington. 



IRELAND. 



The anniversary of St. Patrick was cele- 

 brated at Dublin Castle in the most magnificent 

 style. 



The natives of Wales resident in Dublin sent a 

 deputation to the Castle, with an address to the 

 Marquis of Anglesea, on his arrival there. His 

 Excellency received them very graciously, and 

 marked his affection for his native country by an 

 especial compliment to the deputation that of 

 receiving them without any appearance of state, 

 or attendance of his household, and reading in 

 person this reply to their address: " Unavailing 

 as my efforts may possibly prove in fulfilling your 

 anticipations of happier and more prosperous 

 days to this generous people, my most strenuous 

 exertions and unremitting endeavours shall be 

 directed to its accomplishment." 



There are now in Clonmel gaol, waiting to be 

 tried at the ensuing spring assizes, upwards of 

 three hundred prisoners, of whom more than fifty 

 are for the dreadful crime of murder. The Soli- 

 citor-general is togo this circuit, specially, to pro- 

 secute the murderers of the Maras ; for which 

 crime there are nearly twenty individuals in cus. 

 tody, on the evidence of an accomplice, admitted 

 as a witness for the Crown. 



It is reported that several nocturnal meetings 

 have been lately held in the county of Kildare, 

 principally consisting of the peasantry. Some of 

 them have been stated to us to be attended by 

 thousands. On one or two occasions they dis- 

 persed quietly on being exhorted to that effect. 



Estates annexed to some of the Irish bishop- 

 ricks in Irish acres : Derry, 94,836 ; Armagh, 

 63,470: Kilmore, 51,350; Tuam, 49,281 ; Clogher, 

 32,317; Elphin, 31,017; Dublin, 28,781 ; Cork, 

 22,755; Meath, 18,374; Ossory, 13,891 : Cashel, 

 12,800. Total, 418,872. This account is taken 

 from the returns made by order of the House of 

 Commons, and it includes only eleven bishopricks, 

 out of the number of twenty-two, in Ireland. If 

 tlfese Irish acres were converted into English 

 statutable measure, they would be something 

 more than 600,000 for an Irish one makes 1 acre, 

 2 roods, 19 perches. 



Married.'] Viscount Dungarvan, son of the 

 Earl of Cork, to Lady Catherine St. Lawrence, 

 sister to the Earl of Howth. W. J. M'Guire, esq., 

 to Lady Mary Annesley, daughter of the Earl of 

 Anuesley. 



