a i I a i i i er a i oe te i 6 BE Be at a le 
488 Provincial Occurrences :—Ireland.— Notices to Correspondents. 
Terrot; James, second son of Mr. Alex. 
Douglas; Mr. D. G. Herriot ; Helen 
Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir W. Ar- 
buthnot, bart.; Macrae, daughter of .Mr. 
W. Tennant, jun.; J. R. Bell, third son of 
G. J. Bell, professor of Scots Law in the 
University of Edinburgh ; Miss A. Thorn- 
ton, of Fountain-bridge—M. Abercromby, 
second daughter of Gen, Sir R. Abercromby 
of ‘Tullibody, x. x. 
- IRELAND. 
Married.| At Dublin, W. Jones, esq. to 
Gilbraith, bart. of Urney-park, county of 
Tyrone — Rev. R. Coote, to Harriet, 
youngest daughter of the late Rev. S. Clore, 
of Elm-park, county of Armagh — The 
Hon. D. A, Bingham, second son of the 
late Right Hon. Lord Clanmorris, to 
Maria Helena, second daughter of R. 
Persse, esq. of Roxborough. 
Died.| At the Deanery, Ennis, the very 
Rev G. Stephenson, p.c.L. dean of Kilfe- 
nora, and rector of Callan, Ireland. He 
was formerly Fellow of King’s College, 
Cambridge. 
Harriet Rebecca, third daughter of Sir J. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 
Necessary calculations of contingencies, relative to the operation of Whitsuntide upon our 
Operatives, having obliged us to anticipate certain portions of our usual precess ; several 
communications came too late for insertion in our present number, which else woild have had 
due attention. Among the rests the following works, the receipt of which we feel ourselves 
called upon to-acknowledge—“ A History of Paris,” 3 vols. 8vo. ; “ Narrative-of an Ex+ 
pedition to St. Peter’s River,” 2 vols. 8vo. ;.‘ Selections on Brazil,” 8vo. ;.‘¢ Foreign 
Scenes,” 2 vols.-12mo. ; “* The Botanic Garden; ‘ Rooke’s Principles of National 
Wealth,” 8vo. They will be noticed in our next. 
T.S.D, “ On the McAdam and Wingrove Roads,” has a memorandum, in. pencil, on 
the margin, relative to the conditions.on which it may be used, which prevented us from even 
looking into it. Upon subjects of this description, connected, as they generally.are, with 
local and personal interests, we have always more communications (unaccompanied by.any 
such stipulations as are here alluded to) than. we can find space for. We have several 
such, upon this very subject, lying by us -at this time, for which our acknowledgments 
are due; but which attention to topics less exhausted, and the requisite regard to ‘variety 
have obiiged us at least to defer. We repeat, also, that the McAdam System, -both 
for roads and streets, is, decisively, in such process of practical discussion, ‘that mere argu- 
ments updnthe subject 'scem to be as much out of date, as the speech of:counsel would be after 
the jury had retired upon the evidence: Facts, well attested, either of success or‘ failure, that 
might justify 'a rehearing, would, undoubtedly, be acceptable—if they came on the usual con- 
ditions of reciprocal civility between the communicant and the publisher, or commutual solici- 
tude for the information of the public. 
The communication of our very respectable-correspondent Mr. James Leigh shall lave 
attention : but we are of opinion that some ambiguity of phraseology, in more than one instance, 
has spread this correspondence, relative to Captain Scoresby’s Whale, already, to soméwhat 
more than iis dueextent. The fact of extraerdinary aqueous pressure, in deep submersion, is 
sufficiently. demonstrated in the experiment recorded in p. 345 of our last Number. It is 
worth Mr. Leigh's consideration. Udit wee 9 ' at xs é 
We have been exceedingly gratified by a letter from our poetical correspondent Enov't. 
‘That any attention we may have paid to his very pleasing communications should have con- 
tributed, in any degree, to recommend his.over-modest merit to more etiicacious attentions, and ~ 
have been a mean of placing him in a situation of such comfort as he describes, will make our 
little temple (or cabinet rather ) of the’ Muses still nore sacred in our estimation ; and we may 
add, that it is no small proof of the rapid progress of liberal ideas in. the trading, classes of 
ihe community, when the evidence of poetic genius can recommend hunible and honest industry 
to an appointment ina manufacturing establishment. But the little poems of Enort evidently 
come from the heart; and all who have hearts~-should, therefore, be disposed .to esteem the 
author. . Several of his communications are still in our hands :. one (a tribute to a former 
benefactor) will be found in:our present number ;' the others will follow in succession. 
J.S.H. has taken to himself (not unjustly, however), a hint intended for another corre- 
spondent—who-we wish would attend to it also. The ‘‘ Lines on Holyrood,” are not abso- 
lutely rejected ; but if we partially insert them, we must take almost as much liberty with the 
latter part of them as we took with the whole of the “ Ariel.” A young man‘(as we.suppose the 
author to be), who can write such lines as were scattered through the original copy of the last= 
mentioned poem, and as are to be found among the more recently communicated “ lines,” must 
have the seeds of poetry in him; but he mistakes the soil of the garden of the’ Muses, if he 
thinks that, without diligent cultivation, the docks and cockle will. not choke the flowers. We 
shall be happy if our attentions should assist him in perceiving what he should weed out, and 
what he should cherish. As for-our friend David, we advise him’ to plant his little plot with 
useful edibles for the'table. We cannot flatter him with the prospect that any of ‘the slips 
Srom Parnassus will flourish theres. .A love of rhyming.is no evidence whatever of poetic 
talent. 
