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buildings to be erected in their stead, which will 
be so arranged as not only to be more convenient 
to the occupiers, and more pleasing to the eye, 
but will also render the streets more commodious 
and safe to the traveller. 
A report has been presented to the Chamber of 
Commerce, at Bristol, by a committee appointed 
to investigate the capabilities of that city and 
its neighbourhood for the establishment of such 
manufactures as have not yet been introduced» 
and the improvement and extension of those al- 
ready established there. It dwells with much 
force on the advantages likely to result from the 
establishment of cotton manufactures in the dis- 
trict; acloth and wool hall are also suggested as 
peculiarly desirable, from the situation of the city 
with reference to the districts in which the woollen 
manufacture is already so extensively carried on. 
WORCESTERSHIRE, —It appears by the 
Treasurer’s Abstract Account of Receipts and 
Expenditure, that from Michaelmas 1827, to 
Michaelmas 1828, the sum of £7611. 15s, 11d. was 
paid on account of this county ; upwards of £6,000 
of which was expended in criminal jurisprudence, 
vagrants, &c. Although in the Sessions’ prose- 
cutions the expense has increased about £200, 
yet there has been a decrease of upwards of £700 
in Assize prosecutions from the preceding year. 
HERTFORDSHIRE.—At the winter goal de- 
livery for this county, 6 prisoners received sen- 
tence of death, 8 of transportation, and several 
imprisoned for various periods. 
ESSEX.—At the winter assizes for this county 
11 prisoners were recorded for death, and !2 
transported. 
HUNTINGDON.—At the 12th annual meeting of 
the Hunts’ Savings’ Bank, the report of the Mana- 
ging Committee, upon the present state of the In- 
stitution, was presented and approved. It appears 
that the number of existing depositors, including 
25 Friendly Societies, and 2] Charitable Institu- 
tions, is 758, and the sums deposited, on the 20th 
of November last, with the interest thereon, 
amount to £26,053. 2s.92d. A bonus of 2d in the 
pound (from the Surplus Fund) was ordered to be 
added to the amount of deposits and interest due 
on the 20th of November last ; but no calculation 
to be made on the fractional parts of a pound. 
The interest, in future, will be 3, 6s. Sd, per 
cent. 
BEDFORDSHIRE.—We perceive by the an- 
nual statement published by order of Act of Par- 
liament, that the funds of Sir William Harpur’s 
charity, which originally produced a rental of 
only £180 per year, have now inereased to the 
enormous sum of very nearly £12,000. Under the 
head of expenditure, among other items, we re- 
mark the following :—For the use of the grammar 
and other schools, £1,794. 5s. ; for exhibitions, 
£240; marriage portions for maidens, £240; hos- 
pital for the maintenance and education of boys 
and girls, £744 ; apprentice fees, £835. 10s, ; dona- 
tions and benefactions to apprentices after service, 
£263 ; for the support of almshouses, £1,670. 11s. ; 
distribution to the poor in same, £489. 10s, Too 
much credit cannot be given to the trustees for 
the admirable manner in which these funds are 
applied. We reckon this charity second to none 
in England.—Herts’ Mercury. ’ 
[Jan. 
CORNWALL.—The poor Germans who have 
been so long at Falmouth, and on whose behalf 
subscriptions have lately been entered into at 
Truro, and other parts of the county, have em- 
barked for Brazil. They bhaye been amply pro- 
vided with every necessary for the voyage, and 
leave our shores in much better condition than 
it appears they left their own originally. 
WALES.—A large fish of the whale species, 
measuring 19 feet in length, 10 in girth, and 
weighing two tons, was lately destroyed at Pe- 
narth, Glamorganshire, by R. Forman and D. 
Meyrick, Esqrs., who were staying there. The 
monster was discovered early in the morning, 
floundering on the mud opposite the house ; and 
those gentlemen immediately loaded their guns, 
and approaching within a moderate distance, dis- 
patched it, by firing several ball cartridges at its 
most vulnerable parts. It was then given to some 
labouring men, belonging to the village, and has 
been by them exhibited at Cardiff and Merthyr. 
La Jeune Emma, of Cherbourg, from Marti- 
nique to Havre-de-Grace, with sugars rum, &¢. was 
wrecked off Cefn Sidan Sands, Carmarthen Bay, 
the night of Friday se’nnight. The Captain had 
mistaken the Lundy lights for those on the French 
coast off Ushant, an error which led to the melan- 
choly catastrophe, andthe hazy state of the wea- 
ther for several days previous rendered it impos- 
sible for the Captain totake a single observation. 
The passengers were Col. Colquelin, of the French 
Marines, and his daughter, an interesting young 
lady, niece to Josephine, ci-devant Empress of 
France, and their two servants, and we regret to 
add, that all perished. Four of the crew, by 
clinging to spars and fragments of the wreck, 
succeeded in reaching the shore alive, and two 
more were rescued from destruction by the noble 
exertions of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Griffiths, making 
only six survivors out of 19. On Sundaythe vessel 
went to pieces, and only 300 gallons of rum were 
saved out of the cargo. ‘The staff of the Carmar- 
then militia, under Captain Harding, hastened to 
the scene of disaster. Too much praise cannot 
be given to all the resident gentlemen in the neigh- 
bourheod, for the humanity and attention they 
showed to the unfortunate survivors of this 
calamitous wreck ; but with equal grief and indig- 
nation we state, that some diabolical wretches, a 
disgrace alike to their country and to human na- 
ture, the very outcasts of all that is vile and in- 
famous, attempted to rob the unfortunates whom 
the storm had spared, and desolation and misery 
had thrown on their hospitality, strangers ina 
foreign land !!!—Shrewsbury Chronicle, Decem- 
ber 5. 
SCOTLAND.—Epinsurcn in 1828.—Popula- 
lation (including Leith) 170,000, a royal palace, a 
college, 31 professors, a riding-school, a military 
academy, 700 teachers of all branches of educa- 
tion, a royal exchange, 70 churches, 2 theatres, 
13 courts of justice, 400 advocates, 800 writers to 
the signet and solicitors, &c. ; 86 accountants, 40 
physicians, 70 surgeons, 100 apothecaries, 7 li- 
braries, 11 newspapers, 42 insurance companies 
and agencies (34 of these are English), 11 public » 
hospitals, 60 charitable institutions, 25 literary 
societies, 80 royal mail and stage coaches, 86 
hackney-coaches, 400 carriers, 80 public offices, 
850 streets, squares, lanes, &c., and 5 bridges.— 
Scolsman, 
