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Provincial Occurrences : Scotland, Ireland, and Jersey. £Oct. 



About 40 porpoises were discovered, after Hie 

 elibing of the tide, in a large pool in Bury river, 

 opposite Peiiclawdd, Glamorgansliiro. Tlie pilots 

 and a great number of people cciUcctcd, and com- 

 menced an attack- on tiiem with pikes, hatches, &c., 

 and after a long conflict they succeeded in cap- 

 turing 11, some of which weighed upwards of 15 

 cwt. 



SCOTLAND. — We have great pleasure in in- 

 forming our readers that the act which passed 

 last session of parliament, for the better regula- 

 tion of Lunatic AsjUinis, has now come into prac- 

 tical operation. On Friday last, the asylum con- 

 nected with tlie Dumfries and Galloway Royal In- 

 firmary, was carefully inspected, and the nature 

 of each case inquired into, down even to tlic minu- 

 test particular, in presence of the medical officers 

 of the establislnncnt, as well as of the sheriff and 

 procurator fiscal. Dr. Maxwell, and Mr. A. 

 Blacklock officiated as inspectors, and a similar 

 investigation is to take place, in future, twice every 

 year. The inspectors are required to report to the 

 sheriff, wlio, in his turn, must report to tiie lords 

 of justiciary ; and as tliese documents are meant 

 to be most explicit, communicating every tiling, 

 and concealing nothing, a new and most salu- 

 tary light will be thrown on the management of 

 every mad-house in the United Kingdom ; and tlius 

 Parliament will he enabled to keep a w-atchful eye 

 over every hospital for the insane, in Britain. — 

 Dumfries Courier. 



IRELAND.— The Common Council of Cork 

 passed lately the freedom of that city to 58 indi- 

 viduals, amongst whom were, on public grounds, 

 for their, idherence to the Constitution, in Church 

 and State, during the late eventful struggle, the 

 following : — Earl of Eldon, Marquis of C'bandos, 

 Sir C. Wetherall, G. O. Moore, Esq., Rev. C. 

 Boyton, and M. T. Salder, Esq. 



It appears, by the Report of the Select Com- 

 mittee appointed to inquire into Irish Miscella- 

 neous Estimates, just published, that the Com- 

 missioners of the Board of Charitable Bequests, 

 appointed under Act 40 Geo. 3, have, since the 

 year 1802, recovered sums of money belcmging to 

 various charities, which had been diverted from 

 their proper purpose, amounting, in the whole, to 

 .iC239,707. 17s. lOd., together with permanent an- 

 nuities to the amount of .£3,853. 6s. 9d. per an- 

 num ; and that suits are either pending, or pro- 

 ceedings in progress, or under consideration, for 

 the recovery of snm«, amounting in tlie whole, to 

 ^675,950, and of permanent annuities to the 

 amount of .£1,955. 4s. fid. The Parliamentary 

 grants to this Board, during 23 years, amount to 

 jel3,022, a very inconsiderable sum, compared 

 with what has been recovered. 



August 2S, four brothers, Thomas, Edmund, 

 Nicholas, and Pierce Wallace, were executed, at 

 Clonmel, for the murder of their own brother-in- 

 law ! 



During the late frightful gale, too immense 

 whales were stranded near Sir Edward Lee's 

 beautiful lodge at Howth. His gardener, on 

 going to tlie spot, found two of tlie?e monsters 

 struggling to get into deep water. The man re- 

 turned for a gun and friend, and after discharging 

 45 bullets into the body of the largest, they suc- 

 ceeded in killing him These amazing fish made 

 a desperate resistance, and it was nine hours be- 

 fore they were completely captured. They mea- 



sure each 30 feet, and weigh six tons. — Dublin 

 Evening Packet. 



The present state of society in tliis country may 

 truly be called melancholy and deplorable. Year 

 after year has the state of Ireland been brought 

 under the notice of the Legislature, and as pe- 

 riodically have endeavours been nsed to remove 

 the supposed cause of discontent. Yet at this 

 very moment, distractions, dissensions, and misery, 

 exist in as full force astliough the land itself were 

 so pre-eminently accursed, that unity, peace, and 

 concord should never flourish, or even take root 

 therein. Now to remedy these evils, the inter- 

 ference of tlie priesthood in matters which belong 

 to the sphere of the civil magistracy, must be ab- 

 solutely prohibited ; and the iiiHuencc now pos- 

 sessed by the leaders of factions, must be diverted 

 to its proper and natural depository, by the resi- 

 dence of landed proprietors ; and above all, edu- 

 cation must be e£fectu.ally encouraged. 



Seventy-five magistrates of tlie county of Tip- 

 perary, assembled recently at Thurles, to take 

 into consideration the disturbed state of the coun- 

 try. A series of resolutions were proposed by 

 Lord Landair, and secosded by Mr. Prittie (M.P. 

 for the county), in which the Insurrection Act is 

 called for, and more troops are desired. Sir J. 

 Byng was present, and objected to the troops 

 being dispersed througliont the country in small 

 parties, because in the present st.ate of public 

 feeling, they might be tampered with by the 

 people. 



JERSEY.— The farms here seldom exceed 15 

 or 20 acres in extent. On these, whole families 

 are maintained in comfort, and even acquire con- 

 siderable possessions besides tlieir lands. It is 

 true they are free from king's taxes, but they 

 have tithes and local charges, and of late years 

 have been subject to poor's-rates. The land, how- 

 ever, bears ahigher price by far than in England, 

 and the work of the farm is done by the owners, 

 with the help, in some instances, of in-door ser- 

 vants ; and as the people labour for themselves, 

 the work is done better, and the land brought into 

 a much higher state of cultivation. The farmers 

 do not keep hunters, nor their sons and daughters 

 waste their time in frivolous and unprofitable 

 amusements, but each family provides for its own 

 wants, and every member of it, from the boy of 

 10 years old, to the old lady of 70, think it no de- 

 gradation to do any thing in their power to pro- 

 mote the general welfaie. A man who should en- 

 deavour to get into his hands all the lands of a 

 parish, or to disposses their occupiers, would be 

 shunned. The great object with every farmer is 

 to raise produce enough of all kinds to meet the 

 wants of the family, the surplus of which only is 

 sent to market. In the sowing and harvest sea- 

 sons, 20 families may be seen in a single field, all 

 helping to get in the seed or crop of their neigh- 

 bour, in the shortest space of time. On the days 

 appointed for collecting the sea-weed, wliich is 

 highly valued by these prudent farmers, ar.d also 

 when ploughing for potatoes, the single horses of 

 various farmers are put together, and by such 

 mutual assistance a feeling of good will and bro- 

 therhood is kept up amongst them, which does 

 not often exist in those English parishes in which 

 two or three individuals are constantly struggling 

 to get all the land into their own hands. — It was 

 thus in England /ormeWy .','.' 



