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my duty to grant your application, 

 and will sign it immediately. 



Sir JoVm Perring concurred. 

 Aldermen Domville and Smith 

 strenuously opposed ; but the pe- 

 tioners expressed themselves sa- 

 tisfied, as the act required the sig- 

 nature of tv.o magistrates only. 

 Here, however, the clerk inter- 

 posed, on the ground that the act 

 of two would be the act of the 

 sessions ; and as there was an 

 equality of voices, the license 

 could not pass. This objection 

 finally prevailed over the contrary 

 interpretation in favour of the 

 petitioners. Before retiring, how- 

 ever, the applicants addressed the 

 bench as follows : 



Petitioners. — My Lord, are we 

 then to imderstand that the ses- 

 sions refuse our license, yes or no ? 



Lord Mayor. — I am afraid so. 

 Sir John Perring and myself are 

 ready to sign it, but what can be 

 done? We cannot get over this 

 difficulty. 



Petitioners. — We thank your 

 lordship, and shall know what 

 further course to adopt. 



The license was accordingly de- 

 clared 10 be refused. 



19. The Gazette of the Two 

 Sicilies gives the following descrip- 

 tion of a monument which has 

 been discovered among the exca- 

 vations at Pompeia : — The front 

 of the edifice is ornamented with 

 six columns, which uniting with 

 six others, divided in two lateral 

 portions, form a peristyle, fifty- 

 two palms wide, and forty-three 

 long. The ooluums arc of a soft 

 stone, coated with stucco, and are 

 llutcd. Their bases are attic, 

 without any plintli. From the 

 vestibule, to wlilch there is an 

 CH.sy flighty composed of a email. 



number of stairs, there is an en- 

 trance, by a laige door, into a 

 hall, fifty feet long, and forty-six 

 broad. On the wings is raised a 

 double colonnade of six columns, 

 each two palms and a quarter in 

 diameter, similar to those in the 

 vestibule. From several swelling- 

 shafts, IM. Arditi conjectures that 

 all the edifice had a superior order 

 of columns, of a smaller diameter. 

 On the tioor of the hall are three 

 little entrances, conducting to as 

 many small chambers. To the 

 left is a small staircase, by which 

 there was probably an ascent to 

 the higher part of the building. 

 In the lateral part of the hall the 

 pavement is Mosaic. In the 

 centre there had been various 

 geometrical figures in marble, of 

 which only the traces on the 

 ground remain. All the walls are 

 ornamented with pictures, the 

 backgrounds of which are painted 

 with a very lively and brilliant red 

 colour. The dilapidations of this 

 superb monument seem to indicate 

 that its erection was at a very 

 distant period. In all parts the 

 traces of ruins are to be found. 

 The ground is covered with stones, 

 and wiih the capitals of demolish- 

 ed columns. Orders have been 

 given for its immediate restora- 

 tion. The zeal and the knowledge 

 of the Cheralier .\rditi will re- 

 establish, a.s soon as possible, this 

 edifice, which is one of the most 

 curious that have been discovered 

 al Pompeia. 



A dreadful occurrence took place 

 at Wigton on Sunday the 20thj 

 Anne Graham, the wife of W. 

 Graham, blacksmith, murdered 

 two of her children by strangula- 

 tion, left another for dead, and 

 afterwards cut her own throat ! 



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