1828.] 
day, The inhabitants will now correspond with 
London in 36 hours, whereas, they have only been 
able to do so, hitherto, by the old channel of com- 
munication, in six days!!! 
DEVON AND SOMERSET. 
At the Devonshire Sessions, the Chairman, in 
addressing the grand jury, said, “That, in recur- 
ring to the list in the calendar, he saw, with deep 
regret, a great mass of alleged crime; and trifling 
as might be deemed many of them, they exceeded 
seventy in number; and when it was recollected 
that little more than ¢wo months had elapsed since 
there was a general gaol delivery, it was an 
amount of delinquency fearful to contemplate,”— 
«‘ The magistrates,” he said, ‘‘ had determined to 
give two additional general sessions in that court 
every year.” 
The Quarter Sessions for Somerset commenced 
at Taunton, when the grand jury were congratu- 
lated on the exceeding lightness of the calendar; 
« indeed much lighter than he had known it for 
years past,’ said the honourable gentleman who 
addressed the grand jury. 
Mr. Pascoe, civil engineer, of Exeter, has fur- 
nished the Committee with a survey and plan of 
the new line of road from Barnstaple to Braun- 
ton, for the formation of which application is in- 
tended to be made at the next session of Parlia- 
ment, by which the distance will be reduced to 
4 miles, the distance by the present road being 
6 miles and a half; and the intended new line will 
be, confessedly, one of the most beautiful that can 
be conceived, being close by the side of the ma- 
jestic Taw, perfectly level, and nearly straight ; 
the estimated expenze £5,000. 
Died.) Jane, wife of Sir Henry Maturin Far 
rington, bart., of Spring-lawn, Heavitree. 
CORNWALL. 
The Members of the Royal Institution of Corn- 
wall held their Annual Meeting at Truro; and 
the support now afforded by the President of the 
Royal Society, the two county members, and 
other gentlemen of influence in the county, affords 
reason to believe that the Society may be enabled 
to display its valuable and increasing collection 
in a more adequate manner ; and that its museum 
may be regarded asa proper depository for the va- 
rious antiquities with which this county abounds ; 
and that its collection of natural history may be 
commensurate with its native riches, and the faci- 
lities offered by the constant intercourse with 
foreign climes through His Majesty’s packets. 
There is at the present time, at the Wheal 
Hope Mine, a high pressure condensing engine, 
constructed by Captain Grose, which raises 
6,400,0001bs. one foot, by the consumption of each 
bushel of coals, equal to the labour of eighteen 
men. 
Bythe French brig Le Mercure, Cabaret, mas- 
ter, which recently arrived at Penzance, from 
Brest, nine Maltese came passengers, having 
been released from slavery at Tunis,and conveyed 
by a French frigate to Brest, and from thence 
forwarded, by the British Consul at the latter 
port,to England, as British subjects. 
SCOTLAND. 
In one extensive distillery in this quarter, for 
Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Scotland, §c. 
559 
the year ending llth October, 1827, there was 
distilled 3,844,000 gallons of wash; of which the 
total produce was 481,000 gallons of raw grain 
spirits. From the 10th October, 1827, to the pre- 
sent period, there have been distilled in the same 
work, 6,000,000 gallons of wash—the total pro- 
duce of which is 600,000 gallons of raw grain 
whiskey ; the duty on which, at 2s. 10d. a gallon» 
(without drawback), amounts to £85,000. The 
quantity of grain mashed was 7,200 bolls. Raw 
grain whiskey is freely selling at present at7s. a 
gallon, which would make the return £210,000. 
The distillery never ceased working during the 
warmth of summer. This was accomplished by 
machinery being fixed in the cooling room, which, 
by the incessant circulation of air over the coolers, 
reduced the heat of the worts 10 degrees below 
the common temperature, and enabled the work 
to go on without intermission. Such is the ex- 
tent of the demand for the Irish and English 
market, that it is in contemplation to increase the 
distillery one half its present dimensions. The 
other raw grain distilleries in the west of Scot- 
land are also in a similar state of activity —Glas- 
gow Post. 
Died.) Sir Evan Cameron, of Fassifern, N.B. 
bart., aged 90 ; Sir Evan obtained his baronetey 
in consequence of the gallant cenduct of his son, 
Colonel Cameron, “the valiant Fassifern,’ who 
fell at the head of his brave 92d, on the field of 
Waterloo. The title was the free spontaneous 
gift of our gracious sovereign, who thus sought 
to alleviate the sorrows of the aged chieftain, by 
reflecting back upon him the honours earned by 
his gallant son. 
IRELAND. 
In consequence of the agitated state of this un- 
fortunate country, the Lord Lieutenant, being 
resolved to suppress and put down all illegal 
meetings, and to preventthe recurrence thereof, 
has thought fit to issue a proclamation, solemnly 
and strictly warning all His Majesty’s liege sub- 
jects from henceforth to discontinue the holding 
or attending any such meetings or assemblies. 
It is dated October 1; and signed, by His Excel- 
lency’s command, F. Leyeson Gower. 
Mr. Lawless has been arrested [by order of 
government, for heading a riotous mob at Balli- 
bay. He has been bailed, himself in £400, and 
two sureties in £200 each. 
Dividing the population of Ireland into four 
grand classes, with respect to age, the last census 
presents to our view the following lamentable 
picture of the state of a country abounding with 
every means of industry, and with able and will- 
ing hands to cultivate it, in the most civilized 
period of the world:—Infants of 5 years and un- 
der, 1,040,666—one half, at least, badly clothed 
and fed. Children, from 5 to 15, 1,748,663— 
1,300,000 destitute of education. Operatives, 
from 15 to 70, 3,931,660—1,094,845 destitute of 
employment. Aged, from 70 to 100, 81,191—a 
great portion of whom are paupers. What claims 
for employment! What claims for education! 
not to speak of the claims of the aged and others, 
totally helpless, as to their own exertions, or any 
that their kindred (even where they may have 
kindred) can make for them. Something has 
been done in the way of employment and educa- 
tion; more is doing; but a thousand times more 
still remains to be done. 
