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is about 96 aorcs, beautifully situated, comniaiiJ- 

 ing a very extensive prospect. It is proposed fe 

 form also a zoological and botanical garden. — 

 Pr. Wilkinson's philosophical institution is now 

 completed, and has many members. There will 

 be a class for zoology and botany, for the purpose 

 above alluded to. — The baths have been very much 

 improved, cleansed, and beautified, the pump- 

 room beautifully painted, and a superb fountain, 

 on a marble column, erected ; some new baths 

 formed, and the hot water conveyed to the hospital 

 for the patients, instead of taking the patients 

 through the streets ; and many judicious altera- 

 tions effected.— Gravel walks have been made in 

 Queen-square, and additional shrubs planted, and 

 the. arena of Catherine place will be made similar. 

 Gas lights have been placed about the environs, 

 and very extensive improvements effected in Bath- 

 wick ; the old buildings about the abbey are now 

 being removed, and the new turnpikes to be situ- 

 ated at greater distances from the city, so that 

 the rides on the public roads may be more pro- 

 longed. — The new church of Walcot parish is 

 nearly completed, and a suspension bridge will 

 shortly be built across the Avon, at Grosvenor- 

 buildings : the contract is signed. — Bath Herald. 



At the late bazaar held at Bridgewater, .£220 

 were collected for the Benevolent School, 



The interesting ceremony of laying the corner 

 stone of the new church of St. Philip and Jacob, 

 at Bristol, took place Sept. 22 ; it will be very 

 spacious, capable of accommodating 2,500 persons, 

 including 1,590 free sittings, and is to be built in 

 the Gothic style, " No part of Bristol wanted an 

 additional church more than this district," says 

 Felix Farley') Journal, " the parish church of 

 St. Philip being inadequate to the reception of a 

 20th part of the inhabitants, the poorer classes of 

 whoip are in a most lamentable state of demorali- 

 zation !" 



The Bristol Clergy Society celebrated their an- 

 niversary, Sept. 30, when the report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the day stated, that .£494. 128. had 

 been collected on the occasion for the benefit of 

 that excellent institution. The next day The 

 filoucestershire Society held their meeting also, 

 when .£247. 12s, Id. were collected for the fur- 

 therance of the views of that benevolent institu- 

 tion ; and the day after, the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge likewise met at the cathe- 

 dral, where the hundreds of children from the 

 various public and parish schools of Bristol, were 

 in attendance, and a collection was made at the 

 doors. 



LEICESTERSHIRE.— The departing wishes 

 of the late Duchess Elizabeth, of Rutland, have 

 been carried into effect ; her earthly remains now 

 lepose at Belvoir, that beautiful domain which 

 her geniud was so instrumental in adorning. The 

 work of exhumation has been in progress for some 

 time past, as not only the coffin of her Grace is 

 removed from the church at Bottesford, to the 

 tomb on Blackberry-hill, but those of the three 

 Dukes of Rutland, the renowned Marquis of 

 <jraDby, with the various members of their fami- 

 lies, are now deposited in the capacious vaults 

 beneath the ftructure. The coffin of her Grace 

 occupies the interior of a white marble sarco- 

 phagus, placed within the centre of the elaborate 

 Anglo-Norman arch. On its side are sculptured 

 the figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity. At the 

 back of these appears, In Farian marble, a whole- 



length statue of her Grace, who appears to have 

 hurst the confines of the grave, and 's in the actof 

 ascending to the realms of immortality. 



Mr. Secretary Peel, recently passing through 

 Hinchley, a deputation from the framework-knit- 

 ters of that place waited upon him during his 

 short stay, to represent to him the vei7 distressed 

 situation of that town and neighbourhood. The 

 answer was : " The communication made to me 

 shall be brought under the consideration of his 

 Majesty's government, and particularly of the 

 Board of Trade. His Majesty's government has 

 every motive of inclination and of duty to adopt 

 such measures as shall be calculated to relieve 

 local distress, provided those measures arc con- 

 sistent with the general and permanent interest of 

 the country." 



HEREFORDSHIRE. — The Hereford Trana 

 Road to Monmouth Gap has been completed and 

 opened for public use, forming a permanent, cer 

 tain, and rapid medium of conveyance and traffic 

 between Hereford, its vicinity, and the important 

 district surrounding Abergavenny, and other parts 

 of Monmouthshire, comprising advantages of the 

 greatest consequence, and affording a new source 

 for the conveyance of produce, and facilities for 

 commercial intercourse. 



At his last audit day, Mr. Knight allowed his 

 tenants a deduction of 10 per cent, from their 

 rents ; he attended the audit, and told them be 

 had always instructed his steward to let them his 

 estates at 10 per cent. below their fair value; but 

 that times had proved worse than he had antici- 

 pated, and therefore he should make them the ad- 

 ditional allowance of 10 per cent. He also assured 

 them that however bad times may be in future, if 

 they would manage their farms well and properly^ 

 he should be content to receive whatever rents 

 his steward thought they could afford to pay, 

 " consistently with their families living comfort- 

 ably!" 



WARWICKSHIRE. — The Birmingham So- 

 ciety of Arts was opened, Sept. 22, for the ex- 

 hibition of paintings, sculpture, and architecture, 

 under the patronage and auspices of all the no- 

 bility and gentry of the county. 



The business of the Joint Stock Bank com- 

 menced on Thursday last under the management 

 of Mr. J. Gihbins and 12 directors. The capital 

 is fixed at .£500,000 in 10,000 shares of .£50 each. 

 — Birmingham Journal, Oct. 3. 



The receipts at the several performances at the 

 Birmingham Musical Festival amounted the first 

 day to .£1,482. ITs. 5d. ; the second to £2,422. 7s ; 

 the third .£2,351. 73. 6d. ; and the fourth to 

 .£2,841, 5s. amounting in the total, with the sale 

 of books and some donations, to .£9,004. Is. ltd. 

 The gratuitous collection alone, at the church- 

 doors, on coming out, amounted, in toto, to up- 

 wards of £1,700 m 



The expenses for lighting, watching, cleansing, 

 and otherwise improving the town of Birmingham, 

 during the year ending June 30, 1829, amounted 

 to upwards of £10,000.— £2,407 were paid for 

 watchmen ; upwards of .£2,000 for scavengers, 

 and more than £1 ,900 for gas-light. 



Thirty-nine pictures, including several paintings 

 by artists residing in Bristol, have been sold for 

 between .£800 and .£900. out of the present ex- 

 hibition of modern paintings at Birmingham.— 

 Felix Farlry't Bristol Journal. 



