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the certainty that speeiy punishment would fol- 

 low detection of offence !!! Trueman's Exeler 

 Ffying Post. 



The new canal and railway, communicating 

 between the Cann slate works, and the new quay 

 at Catwater, Plymouth, were opened on the 20th 

 inst., by the passage of boats and waggons, c -n- 

 taining large quantities of paring stones and 

 slates from the quarries. All the artificers, with 

 their various implements, and attended with 

 music, flags, &c., accompanied the waggons. A 

 great increase to the trade of the port is expected 

 from these improvements. 



WARWICKSHIRE. Yesterday Robt. Brown, 

 of this city, was released from durance vile. He 

 had been confined in our gaol from the month of 

 of September, 1822, (now more than seven 

 yeirs!!!) for contempt of the Court of Chan- 

 cery, in not answering a bill filed against him, to 

 enforce a treaty for the sale of some old houses 

 in Gosford-street. Coventry Observer, Nov. 19. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. At Bristol three 

 churches and two chapels are now in course of 

 erection : one of the latter is understood to have 

 been built at the entire cost of one individual. 

 In addition to 19 churches of tlie establishment, 

 Bristol contains nearly 30 dissenting meeting. 

 Louses, without including others of a minor de- 

 scription, occupied by the various sects into 

 which some of the non-conformists are divided 

 and subdivided. 



A meeting was lately held at Bristol, to con- 

 si-^er the propriety of founding a college in this 

 city for the education of youth. It was attended 

 by a number of influential gentlemen, and reso- 

 lutions were passed for carrying the measure into 

 effect. The sum of .15,000 is to be raised in 

 200 transferable shares of .50 each. It is not 

 intended to board or lodge the students in the 

 college, hut they are to be accommodated in the 

 houses of the tutors or professors ; and the insti- 

 tution to be opened to persons of all religious 

 denominations. 



KENT. The following, signed by Lord Mar- 

 nham, as Foreman, and by 22 of the Grand Jury of 

 t'lia county, has been forwarded to his Grace the 

 Duke of Wellington. " Grand Jury Room, Maid- 

 i-tone, 16th Dec. 1829. My Lord, We.the Grand 

 Jury of the County of Kent, assembled from all 

 parts of the County in discharge of our public 

 duties, feel that, in justice to our resprctive neigh- 

 lours, we ought rot to separate, without commu- 

 ricating to your Grace for the information of His 

 Majesty's ministers, the deep and unprecedented 

 distress, which, from our personal and local know- 

 lodge, we are enabled to state, prevails among all 

 classes throughout this country, and to a degree 

 that must not only be ruinous to individuals, but 

 must also, at no distant period, be attended with 

 serious consequences to the national prosperity. 

 In making this communication to your Grace, it is 

 our only object to call the attention of the King's 

 Government to the real state of the country, in the 

 hope that speedy and effectual measures may be 

 t-xken to alleviate those distresses which press so 

 severely on the several classes of society." 



WALES. A navigable canal, and a wet dock, 

 or basin, are amottg the contemplated improve- 

 ments at the port of Caidiff. The formation of 

 a railway from South Comely, through the seve- 



ral parishes of Pyle and Kcnfig, Margam, Abera- 

 von, Michelstone, and Baglan, to Briton-Ferry, 

 Glamorganshire, has also been decided upon, and 

 cannot fail of being highly advantageous to the 

 surrounding country, as it will intersect a district 

 rich in coal and mineral ores. 



The chain bridge, at Pout Kemys, three miles 

 from the town of Usk, is now completed, and open 

 for the accommodation of the public. When the 

 new line of road is formed, the distance from 

 Abergavenny to Usk will be shortened two miles, 

 and all hills will be avoided, so as to facilitate 

 the intercourse between these towns and the com- 

 munication with Bristol. 



IRELAND. At the annual dinner of the Clon- 

 dalkin Free Schools, which recently took place, 

 Sir. O'Connell presided, and gave as the first 

 toast, " the people, the genuine source of legiti- 

 mate power." For their benefit, he said. kins 

 reigned, and not that a haughty aristocracy might 

 enjoy titles and emolument?, or a pampered 

 prelacy roll in gilded chariots. It was, there- 

 fore, natural they should precede him in the order 

 of the toasts ; he then gave " the King," and the 

 next toast was " the repeal of the Union," which 

 was received with enthusiastic cheers. The 

 Guardian, Dec. 8. 



The following interesting ami gratifying state- 

 ment of the gradual increase in the number of 

 men engaged in the fisheries for the last seven 

 years, is extracted fmm the report of the Com- 

 missioners of the Irish Fisheries, presented to the 

 House of Commons last session ; the sources from 

 whence the information set forth in that statement 

 is derived, are the annual returns made by the 

 several officers of that department, at the close of 

 the Fishery Year, which terminates on tlie th of 

 April. In April 1822, the number amounted to 

 36,159 men; in ditto 1823, 44 : 892 ; in ditto 1824, 

 49,448 ; in ditto 1825,52,482; in ditto 1826,57,805 ; 

 in ditto 182", 58,044; in ditto 1828, 59,329; in. 

 ditto 1829, 63,421." Beau Green, Dunally, 

 Nov. 30. Saturday last, five men, in a yawl, were 

 in pursuit of a shoal of sprats, in Iver Bay, for 

 bait, with hand loops, when a whale, in pursuit of 

 the shoal, with open jaws, came in contact with 

 the yawl (broadside to) ; feeling the yawl, the 

 the monster closed its jaws, and crushed it in 

 pieces, with the exception of the two ends, in one 

 of which was a young lad, in the act of putting 

 out his loop ; he was the only one out of the five 

 that escaped. One man was found crushed, and 

 fastened to a piece of the floating wreck. Tin's 

 sad catastrophe took place within 70 yards of the 

 deep shelving shore of Ballysigad ; 100 boats 

 were at the time fishing about a mile di.'tant. 

 A bunch of hair from the gills of the whale, fas- 

 tened in a slr.ver of tke wreck, confirms that the 

 boat was destroyed in the way described, and in 

 the way which those on shore, and tlme in the 

 boats agree in attesting." Evening Packet. 



GUERNSEY. As a proof of the value of land 

 in Guernsey, it may be stated tliat an elegant 

 market, almost rivalling'that of Liverpool, and 

 covered with a glass roof, is btiihling on ground 

 that actually sold at 15(1,000 per acre. This is 

 inferior to some ground sold some time ago, by 

 Earl Sefton, at Liverpool, for tipxvards of 200,000 

 an acre. Both are, however, outstripped by the 

 South bridge, at Edinburgh, which is erected on 

 ground that sold for .400,000 an acre. 



