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exercises, the assemblage moved to fauirii 

 Hall, where an excellent dinner was provide<'. 

 jf which more than 30>J persons partook. After 

 having drank a number of appropriate toasts, 

 the company marched to the common and elect- 

 ed their officers for the ensuing year. 



AGRICULTURAL PROSPECT?. 

 We learn from a number of sources of infor- 

 imtion, as well as from personal observation, 

 that the summer has commenced with a flatter- 

 ing appearance of a fruitful season. The plen- 

 tiful rains, together with an atmosphere in gen- 

 eral somewhat chilly, has caused grain and grass 

 to set well, or be very thick at the bottom. The 

 tardiness of Spring has kept back the budding 

 and blossoming of fruit trees till the season has 

 made such progress that frost will not be likely 

 to destroy the blossoms or fruit ; and, should 

 the smiles of Providence be continued, this 

 3, ear will be crowned with more than customary 

 plenty. 



MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE. 



Hon. James L. Hodges was chosen Senator to sup- 

 fly the vacancy in Bristol county. Rev. Mr. Jecks, 

 of Boston, was elected Chaplain ol' the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, and Rev. Mr. Walker, of Charlestowu, 

 Chaplain of the Senate. 



A committee of the Senate reported a resolution, 

 ■which was unanimously accepted, expressing " the 

 high sense they entertained of the urbanity, integrity, 

 and wisdom of their deceased colleague," Hon. John 

 Phillips, " and of the great respect -which is due to 

 his memory for long and valuable services in many 

 public offices of great responsibility and honor, and 

 more especially for the distinguished ability with which 

 for a series of years, he has discharged the duties of 

 President of the Senate of this Commonwealth," &c. 



In Convention, the following gentlemen were elected 

 Counsellors, viz : William P. \\ alker, Esq. Jesse Put- 

 Bam, Esq. Hon. Marcus Morton, Nathan Chandler, 

 Esq. David Cummins, Esq. Hnn. Thos. Weston, Hon. 

 Solomon Smead, Ebenezer Fisher, Esq. and Abraham 

 Lincoln, Esq. who have accepted and been qualified. 



George Sullivan, Esq. was elected Senator to supply 

 the vacancy in Suffolk District. 



On Wednesday, pursuant to assignment, the two 

 houses met in Convention for the purpose of receiving 

 the communication from his Excellency the Governor, 

 The Governor and Lieut. Governor, attended by the 

 Council, the Secretary of (he Commonwealth, and the 

 Sheriff of Suffolk, then came in, and his Excellency 

 delivered a Speech from the Chair. The Convention 

 then separated. 



FOREIGN. 

 A late arrival at New York, has brought London 

 dates to the 23d of April, one day later than had be- 

 fore been received. The head quarters of the Dake 

 d'Angouleme, according to accounts from Bayonne of 

 the 20th of April, were at Vittoria. The Krench had 

 captured Pancorbo, and found in that place 31 pieces 

 of cannon, with bombs, shot, &c. 



In the British Parliament, the unwarrantable con- 

 duct of the invaders of Spain was animadverted upon 

 with much severity, and motions were made for papers 

 and information relating to the aggression. On the 

 JKd of April, Mr. Canning declared that he knew of no 

 j^eement entered into by the Allied powers at Vero- 

 1|ka, to assist France in carrying oa hostilities with 



pain, and did not believe tiiat any instrument was 



igned for that purpose. In the House of Lords, ou 

 he same day. Lord Liverpool stated that if Portugal 

 was attacked without provocation on her part, England 

 would be obliged to assist her ; but if Portugal provok- 

 vd an attack. Great Britain was under no obligation 

 to interfere. Lord Liverpool liktwise stated that there 

 was a prospect that Austria would make arrangements 

 to pay a part, if not the whole, of a great loan made to 

 her some years since by Englaml. The Emperor, he 

 observed, has become a bankrupt, and intends making 

 a composition with his creditors ; but he had not seen 

 his name in the Gazette. Of course he cannot be en- 

 tilled to a certificate, according to law in such cases. 



Ireland is in a state of great commotion. A large 

 proportion of the lower orders appear to be making 

 war on society at large, and to have sworn hostility 

 against all kinds of property. Having suffered for want 

 ■:<( provisions, they now destroy every thing they can 

 lay their hands on, which might otherwise serve for 

 food for man or beast. They are like petulant chil- 

 dren, that quarrel with their bread and butter. If op- 

 pression has driven this wise people mad, their oppres- 

 sors have much to answer for. Burning houses and 

 stacks of grain, killing cattle, and laying waste the 

 country, seem to be the order of the day, and the 

 amusement of the night ; and the equality which is 

 aimed at appears to be that dead level of misery, in 

 which all are consummately and equally wretched. 



The Pirates exlerminaled, — Havana letters of the 

 17th May, announce that the troops sent into the inte- 

 rior, and on the coast, to destroy the pirates who had 

 taken shelter there from American and British cruizers, 

 and renewed their depredations on land, have been 

 very successful, and have swept the haunts of those 

 marauders. 



DOMESTIC. 



Fine Milch Coir. — The cow which took the premium 

 at the Cattle Show in Connecticut last fall, was raised 

 by Mr. Benjamin Bishop, 2d. of West Hartford, from 

 the stock of Mr. Ozem Woodruff. The actual weight 

 of her milk from May 22, 1822, to April ]. 1C23, was 

 eighty-nine hundred and ninety-three pounds, or lOUO 

 gallons — equal to thirty barrels. 



Precautions against Disease. — The Board ©f Health 

 in New York have adopted some regulations to prevent 

 among other things the casting into the streets of gar- 

 bage, vegetables and offals. They are ordered to be 

 kept on the premises until the bell cart calls, or thrown 

 into the river, under the penalty of two dollars ; and it 

 is directed that the gutters in front of every building I 

 and lot during the months of May, June, July and .\.u- | 

 gust, shall be washed and cleansed twice every week, 1 

 under the penalty of two dollars. - 



Good green oak wood (says a Philadelphia paper) is ' 

 now selling at our wharves at $3,25 a cord. This low 

 price is attributed to the discovery of coal, and the fa- 

 cilities afforded by water carriage. 



Norwich, (Con.) May 28. 

 Awful Tempest. — On Sunday afternoon this vicinity 

 was visited by a thunder storm which prostrated sev- 

 eral barns, fences, trees, ice. and occasioned other de- 

 struction. At Montville, while the Rev. Pastor of the 

 Church in that place was directing the attention of his 

 flock to the tempest, by reading the hymn which be- 

 gins : Methinks the last great day has come, 

 Methinks I hear the trumpet sound. 

 That shakes the earth, rends every tomb. 

 And wakes the prisoners under ground, 

 a bolt of lightning struck the cupola of the meeting- 

 house, shattered the belfry, shivered several of the 

 posts and pews in the interior, and instantly killed 

 Mrs. Bradford, a widow, aged 72, and Mary Comstock, 

 a child of nine years of age, and injured several other 

 persons. There was no conductor to the house ; and 

 the vane was supported by a piece of iron, which it is 

 supposed attracted the lightning. Another meeting- 

 house was struck about the same time, and tht light- 

 ning being conducted by the rod, did the building no 



injury. 



Captains Rodgers, Chauncey and Morris, are on a 

 visit of inspection to the northern naval posts. 



AGRICULTURAL ESTABLISH.MENT, 



NO. 20, MERCHANTS' ROW, 



(fc5-^/ Ike East End of the Old Market.U^ 



FOR sale as above, a variety of the most approved 

 single and doubl<> mould board Ploughs, 

 C. Howard's improved cast iron mould board, with 



wrought Shear and Coulter, 

 Cast iron do. do. do. 

 J. Seaver & Co's. do. do. 

 Bigtlow's wrought do. do. 

 Warren's much approved common Ploughs, 

 Sinclair's side hill do. do. do. 

 Howard's much improved Cultivator, an implement 



highly esteemed for its utility in drill cultivation. 

 Rennet's Broad Cast, 



Seed Sowing Machines, for large and small seeds, 

 , Eastman's improved Straw Cutter, 

 Safford's new invented Straw Cutter, much improved, 

 ( Common hand Straw Cutters, 

 j An English Vegetable Cutter, 

 Stevens' patent steel spring Hay and Manure Forks, 

 ' Steel spring Potatoe Hoes, 

 English cast steel broad Hoes, 

 Common and steel do. do. 



.\ great variety of Garden and other Agricultural 

 Implements. June 5. 



