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Provincial Occurrences : Scotland and Ireland. [MARCH, 



burgh presented a very picturesque ap- 

 pearance, resembling not a little, that 

 of a city under blockade the snow lay 

 on the streets in many instances to a 

 great depth, having been blown into 

 long sloping ridges or mounds ; the 

 fronts 01 the houses, and in particular 

 the doors and casements, were so com- 

 pletely studded and battered with snow, 

 as not unfrequently to entirely shut out 

 the light of day. Edinburgh Papers. 



It is with the most extreme regret 

 we report the loss of the Dumfries 

 Mail, between Moffat and the Crook, a 

 dreary, wild, and desolate tract of coun- 

 try, without the vestige of a house or a 

 sheeling, and nothing to guide the tra- 

 veller when the ground is covered with 

 snow, but the snow posts, which extend 

 at intervals for a distance of 7 miles ; 

 and in severe weather perhaps the most 

 arduous and perilous journey, south 

 of Edinburgh. The guard, James 

 M 'George, and the driver, John Good- 

 fellow, have unfortunately perished in 

 the honourable discharge of their duty ; 

 in attempting to proceed with the bags 

 strapped upon their shoulders, in weight 

 8 stones, after having been obliged to 

 abandon first the coach, and afterwards 

 the extra leaders, which they had 

 mounted. 



The take of the herrings in the Frith, 

 has continued for some weeks past to 

 assume the appearance of " miraculous 

 draughts ;" nor could they have made 

 their appearance at a more fitting sea- 

 son, to supply the wants of the poor. 

 On Saturday morning last, 39 boats 

 from Newhaven, and about 60 from 

 Buckhaven, drew their nets near Burnt 

 Island. They were very successful, 

 and returned at an early hour in the 

 afternoon, with their cargoes, averaging 

 from four to five cran each boat. The 

 demand was excellent, and the fish sold 

 readily for 9s. to 10s. a cran. About 

 200 cran have been sent weekly by the 

 canal to Glasgow. This fishing, at the 

 present season, gives employment to 

 upwards of four hundred hardy seamen, 

 and has been yielding a daily supply of 

 eighteen thousand nine hundred gallons 

 of^ herrings to the public. The retail 

 price has varied, but they have been 

 sold so low as fifteen for a penny ! 

 North Briton, Feb. 16. 



A Political Union, similar to those of 

 Birmingham, York, Renfrew, and other 

 places, has been recently established at 

 Edinburgh. Several of the gentlemen 

 who proposed or seconded resolutions, 

 prefaced them by speeches, the general 

 purport of which was, a determination to 

 support the present Ministry by every 

 exertion in the powerof the Union, if the 

 plan of Reform should be such as ought 

 to satisfy the country ! and a fixed re- 



solve, if the Ministerial Reform should 

 be defective, to use every constitutional 

 means of obtaining that portion of Re- 

 form which the Ministry delayed! 

 Edinburgh Advertiser. 



IRELAND. The annual meeting of 

 the Education Society, recently took 

 place at the schools, in Kild are-place. 

 The report was most gratifying ; it 

 states, that 1 60 schools have been added 

 to the number within the year, and that 

 after deducting 79 schools, which from 

 various causes, had, during the year, 

 ceased to be in connection with the 

 Society, there were on the list on the 

 5th of January last, 1634 schools, con- 

 taining 132,534 scholars, a very large 

 proportion of which are Roman Catho- 

 lics. Thus giving a net increase of 81 

 schools, and 823 scholars over the amount 

 for the proceding year. While also the 

 schools exhibit an average of 80 scholars 

 for 1 829, they shew an average of 81 for 

 1830 ; and thus it appears there is an 

 increase in the number of schools, in 

 the number of scholars, arid in the aver- 

 age extent of each school a rare result, 

 considering the circumstances in which 

 the Society has been placed, as remark- 

 able as it is gratifying. The total num- 

 ber of schools assisted from the funds 

 within the year, including the new 

 schools, is 1525, to which have been 

 granted various sums, amounting to 

 6,504. 7s. 8d., exclusive of gratuities 

 paid to deserving teachers of schools 

 throughout Ireland, and of the expences 

 attending the training school. The 

 number of teachers who have been 

 trained in Kildare-place, since the first 

 opening to the 5th of last month, is 

 males 1760 females 424 making a total 

 of 2184 teachers attached to the schools 

 in all parts of Ireland, who have been 

 trained by the Society. 



It is our melancholy duty this day to 

 state a fact, which is of the most heart- 

 rending nature. From the inquiries 

 that have been made within the last 

 few days, into the state of the poor in 

 that district of Dublin, known as Fran- 

 cis-street parish, it has been found, that 

 out of a population of 25,000 persons, 

 there are 6,000 in a state of absolute 

 want. In part of that district, several 

 human beings of both sexes, of the ages 

 of 14 and 15 years, were found com- 

 pletely naked and huddled together in 

 corners of the rooms, in the vain endea- 

 vour to retain some heat in their bodies. 

 Dublin Morning Register. 



The Lord Lieutenant has, at his own 

 private expence, chartered vessels at 

 Cork and Larne, and shipped on board 

 them potatoes, for the relief of the dis- 

 tressed peasantry, in the Western and 

 South-Western districts in Ireland. 

 Dublin Evening Mail. 



