Miscellaneous Intelligence: 
amonient; at.times ibwas very vivids 
It:ceased) for vabout half an hour, only 
to begin with) renewed) vigour'; | “the 
clouds then openéd over) the metropo- 
lisyimands poured! down) their torrents, 
and; the othunder rolling awfully accom- 
panied by: equally» alarming flashes of 
lightning ;\ the injury sustained around 
the, suburbs and im. the neighbouring 
counties;|' between, the two points of 
action, \is:very great; from this the wea- 
ther became» temperate and agreeable, 
till the s¢eond week in 
eAugustWhich was unsettled, be- 
tween wet,:cold; and warmth, at last 
thei Jong wished for change arrived, it 
became»very watin‘and dry, with a clear 
sky and delightful serenity, thus con- 
tinuing ‘through to the first part of 
September —In which were some very 
hotdays, the reniainder of the month was 
rather changeable and: cool, but rather 
finesaltogether ; very heavy dews then 
came-on; refreshing and prolonging till 
latethe:summer verdure. 
‘October—For first fortnight very 
déwy;!then some: rain, and: a few days 
sharp frost, to the end was mild and 
temperate, though changeable; dusk at 
half-past five o'clock. 
November—For the first week was 
figyoed ABit 
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very fine’ with a healthy-coolness ; Lord 
Mayor’s Day the'same;'but'a wet even~ 
ing ‘the’ next “fortnight “remarkably 
warm, with’ a great: deal of ‘rain,’ and 
heavy dews'and fogs, nvorning aid éeven- 
ing; a few fine days followed ;> again 
wet and very boisterous (taken in all'I 
never knew a milder November, the air 
being soft). : 
December —Was a continuation’ of 
the same rough weather at first, exeept- 
ing now and then a sharpish frost, ‘and 
sometimes a fine day ; but to the end of 
the third week, the rain that had fallen 
was considerable indeed; stormy ‘and 
boisterous winds westerly, &c., great 
inundations on the coast of Cornwall, 
with ruin to numbers; subscriptions 
raised for them; the western coast of 
Europe suffered equally. with us, at 
last; the year closed with an inclination 
to clear up. ft 
The principal feature therefore of the 
year, has been the quantity of rain,'and 
that so alternately, doing great injury, 
causing rather a scarcity of fruit, and 
that indifferent; the intervention’ of 
warm weather for the harvest was for- 
tunate. Your’s, &c. N. 
Jan. 24, 1825. 
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, MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
—=z> 
She rage. for speculation seems rather to 
icine enn to diminish, and will perhaps 
go On in an accelerated ratio, until it re- 
é¢ive Some severe check by one or two 
grand schemes failing. Many of the new 
undertakings are decidedly useful and. rea~ 
sonable:;- none, however, have started up 
insuch sudden, abundance) as projects for 
making) rail-roads ; their, use, even upon 
a,small scale, had till lately been con- 
fined to.a few mining and manufacturing 
districts ; the discovery, however, of the 
moveable steam-engine, having rendered 
théir application easy for much more ex- 
tensive purposes, their utility began to be 
shown by mer of science, and the public 
$0) quickly perceived it, that seven or 
eight) rail-ways, in different parts of the 
island, were immediately planned, and asso- 
ciations ,are now, forming to furnish the 
funds required... Che facility which this 
new, application, of science will give. to 
in rnal, commerce is prodigious; not only 
will goods be conveyed,’ from one part of 
fhe country’ to another, at a rate four’ or 
ve’ times! as rapid’ as they could be’ tratis- 
ited by vahals, bub the speed of travellers, 
rede ds'i0 wow iatinjmail-couches; may be 
morecthan: doubleds> Am idea > las; ybeen 
wun a 
given of a steam-coach to carry passengers 
twenty miles an hour on a rail-way. A 
gallery seven feet high and eight wide, 
formed into ten separate galleries, cf ten 
feet long each, connected together by joints, 
to allow the train to bend where the road 
turns ; for as to the coach, there are’ con- 
trivances for a common communication and 
for a general sitting place or promenade, 
two of the rooms being set apart for cook- 
ing, stores, and various accommodations ; 
the other eight would lodge 100 passen- 
gérs, whose weight, with that. of their 
luggage, might be twelve tons, the coach 
itself twelve more, and that of the locomo- 
tive machine eight, making in the whole 
32 tons. 
Among all. the new projects and. inven- 
tions with which this age teems, there is 
not one which seems to present such a 
boundless prospect of improvement as the 
general introduction of rail-ways for com- 
mercial communication. Such a new power 
of loco-motion ¢annot be introduced with- 
out effecting a vast change in the state’ of 
society. | With so great a facility and cele- 
vity of communication, the’ provincial towns: 
of an vextensive: empire would become! so 
many suburbs of the metropolis; or rather 
the 
