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of eolar rays, admitted through an aperture which 

 has been formed for the purpose, in the tracery of 

 the adjoining window, falls upon the line, at the 

 precise time when the sun passes the meridian of 

 the place — The superiority of this meridian line 

 to the common dial is very obvious ; and we think 

 it would be useful were a similar plan adopted 

 generally. 



Cuthbert Ellison has presented to the committee 

 of the Loyal Standard Association, South Shields, 

 the sum of ^10 as a donation towards establish- 

 ing a school, to be connected with that associa- 

 tion, on the Lancasterian system. 



The foundation stone of a new bridge over the 

 Tees, was lately laid by Miss Headlam, at Whor- 

 ton, when the usual ceremonies took place. 



YORKSHIRE.— Steps are taking to put the 

 walls which surround the city of York, into a 

 complete state of repair. The estimated expense 

 is i£3,<)00, which is to be raised by subscription. 



Some further discoveries of underground ruins 

 have taken place at St. Mary's jVbbey. The 

 workmen, in continuing their excavations from 

 the line of the screen which has separated the 

 choir from the nave of the parish church, have 

 uncovered the base, and connected cylinders of 

 the large clustered column, which has formed the 

 north-eastern support of the arches, from whence 

 the central tower lias risen. 



A new street is building in Hull, intended to 

 connect Whitcfriar-gate, in that town, with the 

 Avlaley road. 



The shipping trade is so dull at Whitby, that the 

 builders cannot get a ship sold. Three vessels 

 were launched early in the month ; and ciglit are 

 on the stocks ; but no purchaser has appeared for 

 any of them. 



In the third and fourth weeks of Ju'y, lectures 

 on natural history were delivered by Mr. Phillips 

 in the museum of tlie York Philosophical Society; 

 being the first that were delivered subsequent to 

 the completion of the building, 



The magistrates of the West Riding of York- 

 shire, and the corporation of York, are a little at 

 variance. The magistrates of the city of York 

 have a jurisdiction over a district about 32 miles 

 in circumference; and its most remote parts, 10 

 miles from York, called tlie Ainsty, in which tlie 

 county magistrates cannot act. The charter of 

 the city of York being near its expiration, owing 

 to there not being the number of aldermen who 

 have not served the office of mayor, which the 

 charter requires, the corporation have applied to 

 the crown for a new charter ; and the West 

 Riding magistrates have applied to be included in 

 it, so as to have a concurrent jurisdiction in the 

 Ainsty, a request wliich ought to be granted ; 

 but whidi, we understand, has been refused. 



July 11, John Elm. of Iluddersfield, died of 

 want, rather than submit to receive parochial 

 relief I 



The July «e««ion« presented a great falling off 

 of busincKB : throughout the county the nunilier 

 of priBOners was much smaller than has been the 

 case of late. 



The Hon. and Rev. J. Lumlcy .Oaville, one of 

 the prebendaries of Vork minster, has taken upon 

 himself the whole expense of the new organ to he 

 erected in York minuter, which is estimated to 

 cost .^0,0(10. 



The parishioners of St. Michael, in York, have 



presented a handsofne colTee-pot and stand, value 

 £30, to the Rev. W. Baker, as a mark of their 

 respect for his conduct during the 25 years he has 

 been vicar of that parish. 



A meeting of malsters, brewers, and flour 

 dealers, was beld in Leeds, June 19, to take into 

 consideration the best and most effectual steps 

 necessary to be adopted, to resist the claims made 

 by the owner of the Leeds Stoke Mills. The 

 question at issue is not whether certain exclusive 

 rights are vested in the owner of the King's 

 Mills : it is not disputed that he can compel the in- 

 habitants to grind their corn there, but the in- 

 dividuals who attended the meeting deny that they 

 are obliged to purchase flour in a ground state, 

 or malt, in a crushed state, at his mills, exclu- 

 sively ; and therefore resolved, " that the pro- 

 prietor of the Leeds Stoke Mill, in attempting to 

 prevent the inhabitants and residents within the 

 manor of Leeds from purchasing meal or flour 

 (except such as has been ground at his mills), or 

 from purchasing and using malt in a crushed 

 state (except such as has been crushed at his 

 mill) is endeavouring to obtain a monopoly of the 

 first necessaries of life equally illegal, oppressive, 

 and unjust." A committee was appointed to re- 

 ceive subscriptions for the purpose of protecting 

 those who might be injured in resisting this rem- 

 nant of the feudal system, "purchased by lords 

 of manors and rich persons," said one of the 

 speakers, " of Charles II., one of our needy 

 kings.'' — Leeds Intelligencer. 



This year the " Wellington Clubs" of this town 

 have had no " Waterloo dinners" to celebrate 

 the memorable victory obtained by British skill 

 and prowess over the French forces on the 18th of 

 June, 1815. They have, moreover, resolved in 

 future to commemorate the anniversary of the bat- 

 tle of TraM^av.—Leeds Intelligencer, June 23. 



The first stone of Huddersfield new infirmary 

 was laid June 29, on which occasion a splendid 

 procession took place. Donations amounting to 

 the very munificent sum of .£9,911. ISs. 6d., and 

 .f411. 83. annual subscriptions, have already been 

 received for this truly philanthrophic establish- 

 ment. 'Upwards of 100 gentlemen, in which were 

 included all the wealth and talent of Huddersfield 

 and its neighbourhood, attended the dinner on the 

 occasion, when ftlr. Clay (who had been the ori- 

 ginal mover for establishing the infirmary), said, 

 on his health being drank, that he had the most 

 sanguine hopes that it will become one of the most 

 important medical institutions in the north of 

 England. "May 18, 1825,'' he said, "I com- 

 menced my task in collecting subscriptions, and, 

 on that day, and the three following, I collected 

 .£2,589 in donations, and .£69. 14s. in annuul 

 subscriptions!!!" 



There has been no duty performed in Meltham 

 chapel for two months, and the respectable inha- 

 bitants are thus driven cither to go to dissenting 

 places of worship, or to go to a great distance : 

 and we would only ask, how long arc these dis- 

 graceful proceedings to be permitted to stain the 

 chai aeter of the district in wliich we live ? — Leeds 

 Intelligencer, Jul;/ 23. The same respectable 

 paper .adds, that the burial of the dead has been 

 obstructed at the same place.* 



• Meltham contains upwards of 2,0fl0 iriha- 

 bitants ; the cause of the scandalous neglect is 

 occasioned, we understand, by a dispute between 



