1827.] 



Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 



673 



The number of blocks of tin coined at Pen- 

 zance in the last quarter was 4,089; and the 

 whole number in Cornwall during that period was 

 6,900. 



WALKS. 



The Corporation of Pembroke having disposed 

 of their right to the toll of the new market at 

 Pembroke Dock to government for .3,000, it is 

 expected that it will be immediately opened. 



A respectable meeting has been held in the me- 

 ' tropolis, composed chiefly of gentlemen resident 

 in London, born in the principality, for the pur- 

 pose of taking into consideration the best means 

 ot protecting the interests of the Welsh peasantry, 

 who have been permitted to erect habitations on, 

 and take into cultivation parts of, the common 

 and waste lands of the principality, and who have 

 been or might be ejected under the authority of 

 bills of enclosure, without compensation for their 

 tenements or their labour. The proceedings had 

 reference to some bills of enclosure, by the opera- 

 tion of which serious disturbances were created 

 amongst the Welsh peasantry a short time ago, 

 and more particularly to a Bill brought into Par- 

 liament by some land owners in Carnarvon- 

 shire, for the enclosure of some common lands in 

 the parishes of Llanwndda and Llandwrog. A 

 petition to Parliament was ordered to be prepared, 

 and a subscription was entered into for defraying 

 the expeiiees. Too much of what is now attempt- 

 ing to be done in Wales has been done in Eng- 

 land. Our Enclosure Bills have converted all our 

 hardy and industrious cottagers, with their one or 

 two cows'each on the commons, into squalidpaupers. 

 The landowners, either by purchase (for the poor 

 are improvident) or by the original provisions of 

 the Enclosure Bills, have swallowed up all the 

 rights of their poor neighbours. These latter, 

 once the pride and strength of England, are now 

 come upon the parish, and the very possessors of 

 their property complain at maintaining the late 

 owners out of the rates. The land formerly main- 

 tained the little occupants of the cottages which 

 were built upon it, in decency and comfort, with- 

 out the intervention of the rates, or the necessity 

 of applying to an overseer. We understand this 

 attempt to injure the Welsh peasantry has been 

 finally frustrated, owing to the firm opposition with 

 which it has been assailed. 



The expenditure for the county of Glamorgan, 

 from Easter 1826 to Easter 1827, as published 

 by Mr. E. P. Richards, treasurer, amounts to 

 .5,258. lls. lid. One of the items is for building 

 a new house of correction at Swansea, 1,500. 



Progress is making to facilitate the communi- 

 cation through Herefordshire and the neighbour- 

 ing counties in Wales. The hills which separate 

 Kington from Hay having been long complained 

 of by travellers, the commissioners have resolved 

 upon making a new road. 



The friends ot Mr. Davie.s, of Rhyscog, Radnor, 

 have presented him with a most elegant silver gilt 

 vase, value 100 guineas, having a finely-modelled 

 and executed ox on the cover, and a sheep en- 

 graved on one of the medallions on the body, with 

 the following inscription on the reverse side: 

 " To Mr. John Davies, of Rhyscog, for his unde- 

 viating and honest conduct as a sheep and cattle- 

 dealer for the space of 40 years, this t.ken of re- 

 spect is presented by the gentlemen and yeomanry 

 of the counties of Radnor and Brecon." 

 M.M. New Series. VOL. III. No. 18. 



Died.'] The Rev. Dr. Crawford, archdeacon of 

 Carmarthen. 71 , Mr. W. Brown, of Bryncock, 

 Montgomery. -At Holyhead, 100, Mrs. M. Wil- 

 liams, late of Tymawr-farm ; she retained her 

 faculties till the last. At Aberdare, 78, Rev. T. 

 Jones, perpetual curate incumbent for 40 years 

 at Aberdare and Lamvonns. At Penegoes, Mont- 

 gomery, Rev. H. Thomas; he had been chaplain 

 on board the fleet at Lord Howe's victory, June 

 1794. At Dolgelly, 75, Mr. D. Richards, generally 

 known among the bards and the admirers of Welsh 

 poetry by the assumed name of Dafydd Jonnwr, 

 and author of Cywydd y Drindod, and other 

 pieces. 



SCOTLAND. 



The quantity of foreign grain which is daily 

 pouring into the port of Leith is very great, and 

 has not been equalled for these 16 years past ; the 

 east dock is quite crowded with Prussian, Swedish, 

 and other foreign vessels. 



At a meeting of the freeholders, &c. of the county 

 of Fife, it was unanimously resolved to present a 

 petition to Parliament in favour of the bill to in- 

 crease the breed of salmon, and for regulating the 

 salmon fisheries throughout Great Britain and 

 Ireland. 



At a dinner given in the Assembly-rooms at 

 Glasgow, upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down to 

 testify their esteem and admiration of the literary 

 genius of the Lord Rector (Mr. Campbell). After 

 a variety of toasts, Professor Sandford proposed 

 " The brightest gem in England's crown, that 

 would diffuse education to thousands yet unborn, 

 The London University." Mr. Campbell said, 

 " When that brilliant gem in the University, 

 which had now addressed them, was appointed 

 Professor of the Greek Class, he clapped his hands, 

 and said it was all over with Oxford now. He 

 disregarded all the detractions of malice; but, 

 beiore the company, he would invoke the light- 

 nings of heaven to strike him dead, if the first 

 idea of the London University did not proceed 

 from himself. He, however, confessed that he 

 could not have proceeded three steps without the 

 aid of great and powerful friends ; in particular, 

 of his great, nay, he might almost call him his 

 omnipotent friend Mr. Brougham, who had wielded 

 the proud aristocracy of England to be favourable 

 to the design. If he had. committed an error in 

 being intoxicated with their favour, he hoped they 

 would at least acknowledge his claims as being 

 the founder of the London University." 



A great many muslin weavers at Glasgow have 

 begun to weave silk, which is now a thriving trade 

 there. 



married."] At Edinburgh, the Right Hon. Lord 

 Erskine, to Miss Philadelphia Stuart Menteath, 

 eldest daughter of C. G. S. Menteath, esq., of 

 Close burn -hall, Dumfrieshire, George Dempster, 

 esq., of Skibo, to Joanna Hamilton, youngest 

 daughter of the late Right Hon. R. Dunda.s, of Ar- 

 niston, Lord Chiet Baron of the Exchequer. 



J)ied.~\ At Grant's Braes, near Haddington, 

 6/, Mr. Gilbert Burns, brother to the celebrated 



Bjet, and author of many celebrated works. At 

 undee, 104, Janet Findlay; she married at 88 

 a youth of 25, and the last 12 years she was sup- 

 ported by charity ; her i'aculties were very little 

 impaired, and her death was occasioned by a fall. 



IRELAND. 



Emigration to America, through Waterford, 

 continues to an extent quite unprecedented. The 

 Bolivar, of Waterford, of 38.1 tons register, burden 

 about 800 tons, lately sailed for Halifax, with 

 about 35.0 passengers. 



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