This first stone

of a Church, to be called St. Mary's,

was laid by

Charles William, Lord Viscount Milton, M. P. &c. attended by the Brethren of the Phœnix Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, On the 29th day of September, A.D. MDCCCXXVI, in the 7th Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV. Grand Patron of Masonry.

The entire expense of the building was estimated at 46002.; his Majesty's Commissioners for building New Churches granted the sum of 2000l. in aid of its erection. A fund of near 2001. was raised by private subscription in the parish; and William Earl Fitzwilliam, the venerable Patron of the Living, made himself responsible for the remaining sum. In consideration of this determination of the Pa. trou, his Majesty's Commissioners (contrary to their usual custom) placed the entire management of the building in his Lordship's hands. The site of the church and cemetery was jointly given by the Earl Fitzwilliam and the inhabitants of Greasbro.' Francis Hall, perpetual Curate. Edward Hill, Churchwarden.

Charles Watson and J. P. Pritchett, Architects.

WALES.

Capt. Radford, R.N. has published a prospectus for the formation of a Steam Boat Company at Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, for comnunicating with Liverpool, Bristol, &c. by way of Beaumaris and Tenby. His plan has excited great attention amongst the resident gentlemen of Aberystwith and its vicinity. The Captain's intentions in form ing the Company also extend to a new and shorter communication between London and Ireland, through Hereford, Kington, and Rhayader, either to Aberdovey or Aberystwith.

Suspension Bridge at South Stack.-For several years past this romantic spot has been approached by a bridge of net-work, suspended by ropes from Holyhead Island. This fragile structure is, by order of the Trinity House, about to be superseded by a more substantial one, after the principle of the Menai, and may be truly styled a miniature of that stupendous work. This undertaking (as were also the rope bridge and the beautiful revolving light on the Stacks) is under the direction and superintendence of Hugli Evans, Esq. the Harbourmaster of Holyhead. Last month the ceremony of laying the first stone took place, and the fair artist who used the trowel and mallet on this occasion, was Miss Isabella Stanley, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley, of Alderley Hall, Cheshire; thelady, who has been lately married to the enterprising navigator Captain Parry.

A Meeting was lately held at Pyle, for the purpose of receiving the Report of a Committee appointed to take into consideration the plans suggested by Mr. Telford, for the improvement of the Mail roads through Glamorganshire. The High Sheriff having been called to the chair, the Report, recommending the line of road to commence at Ely, and thence by Misken and Lanharry through Bridgend to Pyle, and thence to Swansea, crossing the Neath river at Briton Ferry, and from Swansea to Loughor, or elsewhere, to join the Caermarthen line, was proposed by Sir John Nicholl, and agreed to by a majority of nine, there being eighty-nine for, and eighty against the motion. An amendment, proposed by the Hon. W. Booth Grey, recommending the adoption of the line through Cowbridge and Bridgend, was consequently negatived by the above majority.

SCOTLAND.

The sixth session of that most useful institution, the Edinburgh School of Arts, commenced lately. Education may be truly said to be one of the staple branches of trade in Edinburgh; and the immense advantages it holds out in that respect, both as regards the skill of the teachers, the moderation of the expense when compared with England, and the great facilities afforded by the system of public classes, must attract many strangers to it who have families to bring up. While such facilities are held out to the more wealthy classes of society, it is gratifying to find that the interests of a large and important part of the community are not neg. lected; those whose success in life may be so materially promoted by the cultivation of several branches of science, confined till of late years to the more elevated ranks. The industrious mecha. nic, who wishes to make himself a more intelligent workman, may now purchase, at the School of Arts, that instruction which will impart to him those unerring principles of exact science upon which his art rests, at a price which he can afford to pay, and at a time of the day convenient for him to go to receive it. The Lord Provost and several of the other directors were present, and there could not be less than five hundred persons in the room. The introductory lecture was delivered by Mr. Lees, the Lecturer on Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy. After showing the general advantages of such instruction as this Institution affords to the artisan, he pointed out the nature and objects of the investigations of Mechanical Philosophy, and illustrated what he said by several interesting experiments, concluding with an outline of the subjects he proposes to treat of in his various lectures. In the adjoining room there were exhibited several most creditable specimens of what had been done in the Drawing Classes last summer, consisting of architectural plans and de signs, admirably calculated to give the pupil an accurate eye, and a power of making a drawing of any piece of work on which he may be engageda faculty that must be of incalculable advantage to him. In the same room there was a very large collection of books, which are lent out to the students, and a considerable display of excellent apparatus in high order.

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name, and gifted with the most ordinary powers of sensibility, to remain an unmoved spectator of the scenes which his country and that of Ireland exhibit at the present moment. On every side more or less of distress prevails: the miserable prospects, as the winter approaches, of his hardworking countrymen in the North; the fever, the diseases, which are decimating the helpless victims in the Irish metropolis, are calculated to harrow up the mind of every one, not rendered callous by selfish feelings or familiarity with spectacles of misery and despair.

Continued fine weather enables us still to report favourably on the prospects of the husbandman; and it is no small gratification to us to state, that the seeding of the land with wheat was never performed under more auspicious circumstances than it has been done hitherto during the present season. It only remains with us to reiterate our regret, that the drill should be allowed to supersede the use of the dibble in the performance of this work: the benefit which accrues to the farmer by the latter mode, is greater than is generally imagined; less seed is required-better crops are obtained, not only in bulk, but in the quality of the grain-and thousands of poor families, children more particularly, would find six weeks' or two months' profitable employment, who are now a burthen upon their respective parishes. Turnips continue to improve; and the autumnal grasses having produced more feed than is commonly the case, the fear of a scarcity of cattle-food has somewhat subsided; -nevertheless, very high prices are still demanded and obtained for hay and turnips, and many farmers are supplying themselves with oil-cake and other artificial food, in anticipation of a severe winter, and a consequent scarcity of sheep towards the spring of next year: yet, in despite of all these untoward circumstances, which must evidently encroach upon the profits of the grazier, store beasts in forward condition for grazing meet with purchasers at extravagantly high prices. Horses

also, both of the nag and cart kind have fetched more money, at most of the Michaelmas fairs and farm auctions, than could reasonably have been expected, considering the heavy expense of keep which must necessarily accrue throughout the approaching winter and spring months. The value of horses in England has drawn numbers from the Continent; but the mania for obtaining foreign cattle to improve the breed of that which is already perfect, has somewhat abated, and the Flemish horses and mares recently imported will realize too small a profit to the improvers, to induce them to continue the speculation.

The corn markets remain almost stationary, with the exception, perhaps, of a trifling tendency towards a depression in the price of wheat, and a moderate inclination to advance in that of barley: indeed the value of the two grains so nearly approximates each other, that although the latter is avow edly the most deficient crop of the two, we are so firmly convinced of the deficiency of the former, that, unless some extraneous and unforeseen causes contribute to prolong the depreciation, it must eventually approach to its proper standard of relative value as compared with that of other grain.

A larger breadth will be planted with wheat this year, in consequence of the failure in the turnip crop, wherein the land being unoccupied, the farmer will be induced to take a crop of wheat in lieu of barley and oats.

Bank Stock was on the 25th ult. 202 half.-Three per Cent. Reduced 81-81 three-eighths. Three per Cent. Consols 81 five-eighths. 82-Three and a-half perCent., 99 quarter. Ditto Reduced 87 half, seveneighths, New Four per Cent. 1822, 97 half, 98.

Clover, 115s to 126s-Inf. 90s to 110s---Straw, 30s to 36s. St. James's. Hay, 75s to 1129Clover, 90s to 126s-Straw, 335 to 399.

Whitechapel. -Clover, 84s to 130s -Hay, 80s to 108s-Straw, 34s to 38s.

Four per Cent. 1826, 96 half, three quarters.-India Bonds, 38, 41 pr.-South Sea Old Annuities 80 seven. eighths. Exchequer Bills 10001. 25, 24. pr.-5001. 25, 26 pr.-Consols for Account, 81 three-quarters, 82 quarter.

J.

Sept, 26. B. MEGE, Copthall-buildings, Throgmorton-street, London, merchant. J. PEAK, New Ormond-street, Holborn, bricklayer. T. BANNISTER, Norwood-green, near Hanwell, Middlesex, brewer. G. FOSTER, Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington, billbroker. W. I. GREGORY, Manchester, upholsterer. J. STONE, Manchester, lace-dealer. N. SHIERS, Aldermanbury, warehouseman. T. WIGGLESWORTH, Colne, Lancashire, rope-manufacturer. M. WETHER SPOON and J. R. WALFORD, Liverpool, merchants. T. GILSON, Nottingham, hosier T. MANLEY, Dawlish, Devonshire, builder. W. BRADSHAW Manchester, tailor. T. THOMAS, Swansea, Glamorgaushire, grocer.

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Sept. 29. J. HUNT, Bagillt, Holywell, Flintshire, innkeeper. J. F. HOLWHEDE, Liverpool, merchant. J. DAVIES, Newport, Monmouthshire, currier. MOONEY, Hanover-street, Long acre, Middlesex, victualler. W. MOGG, Wincanton, Somersetshire, dealer. S. WORTHINGTON and J. HODKINSON, Manchester and Salford, Lancashire, calenderers. PICKTON, Liverpool, timber-merchant. F. DUTTON, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, stationer. SUSANNAH ASH, Upper Russell-street, Bermondsey, Surrey, tanner. R. CORRY, Henstridge, Somersetshire, innkeeper. J. H. GIBBS, Chiswell-street, Finsbury-square, oil and colourman. C. PETERS, East Church, Island of Sheppy, Kent, farmer.

Deppy,

Oct. 3. J. WALLACE, Liverpool, and Belfast, Ireland, merchant. R. POMEROY the younger, Brixham, Devonshire, banker. J. JACKSON, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk-throwster. J. TAYLOR, Agecroft, Lancashire, calico-printer. A. CHILD the younger, Walcot, Somersetshire, carpenter. J. WHEELER, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, builder. W. SIMS, Fair Oak, Bishops Stoke, Hants, schoolmaster. J. NUTTALL, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, saddler. J. HARRIS, Plymouth, joiner.

Oct. 5. J. WILLIAMS, now or late of Penygloddfa, Llanllwchaiam. Montgomeryshire, flannel-manufacturer. R. PATTENDEN, Henfield, Sussex, victualler.

G.

Oct. 10. J. WARDER, Stoulton, Worcestershire, innkeeper. W. HALLETT the younger, Tenby, Pem brokeshire, shopkeeper. W. HALLETT the elder, Pembroke, shopkeeper. M. KIEN. Kentish Town, Middlesex, lodging, and boarding-house keeper. GRAVES, Manchester, machine-maker. J. LOCK, Northampton, draper. P. W. DUMVILLE, Manches ter, dealer. E. H. HUMBERTSON, J. DUNNING, and G. FLETCHER, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants. G. TIPPING, Openshaw, Manchester, bleacher, MILES, Hereford, mercer. R. SCHOLFIELD, Pilkington, Lancashire, wankeen-manufacturer.

W.

Oct. 13. D. CASTELLO, Old Broad-street, London, merchant. J. ALLAN, Truro, Cornwall, tea-dealer. W. BRANTINGHAM, Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, grecer. W. FARRER, of the White Horse Inn, Fridaystreet, Cheapside, wine-merchant. E. READ, Richescourt, Lime-street, London, ship and insurance-broker.

F. EBURNE, Ryton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. miller. F. DEAKIN, Birmingham, sword manufac turer. M. KEEN (and not MARY KIEN, as before auvertised), Kentish Town, Middlesex. boarding and lodging-house keeper. 7. TREHERN and G. STE VENS. Hereford, timber-merchants D. GILBERT, Oxford, coach-master. T. HARRISON, Union-strret, Southwark, linen-draper. R. JEFFERSON, Pickering, Yorkshire, haberdasher. Bridge-street, Blackfriars, ironmonger.

J. PATTERSON,

J.

Oct. 17. J. I. HOLBIRD, Beech-street, Barbican, boot-maker. G. J. DE WITTE, Brompton-row, Knightsbridge, merchant. D. HODGES, Liverpool, silk-mercer. W. H. STAMP and W. NICHOLSON, Norway-wharf, Milbank-street, timber-merchants. POTTER, Salford, Manchester, flour-dealer. ROBINSON, Salford, victualler. J. and S. ASHTON, Stockport, Cheshire, cotton-spinners. W. ROSE. sen. Spilsby, Lincolnshire, shopkeeper. C. MARTIN, Rumney, Monmouthshire, grocer.

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Oct. 21. E. T. JONES, Northfleet, Kent, victualler. J. PERRING, Turamill-street, Clerkenwell, baker. J. HALLIDAY, Castle-street, Holborn, merchant. T. GEARY, John's-mews, Bedford-row, coach and house painter. J. CARRUTHERS, Leadenhall-street, tendealer. T. AINSWORTH, Blackburn, draper. WINNINGTON, Manchester, boot and shoe-maker. J. FELL, Liverpool, merchant. W. TUTE, Leeds, dyer. J. BEASTALL, Hucknall Tokard, Nottinghamshire, lace-manufacturer. T. MARSHALL, Netting ham, lace-manufacturer. C. MEARS, Stockport, bread-baker. J. HOW, Salisbury Crescent. Kent-read, broker. T. BENTLEY, Blackburn, miller.

R.

HATFIELD, Maddox street, Hanover-square, plumber. W. A. SOUTH, High-street, Southwark, chemist.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

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A. and D. HISLOP, builders, Edinburgh. J. FOREMAN, merchant, Coldstream. G. DOUGLAS, wright, Edinburgh. P. MURRAY the younger, of Trogubain, grazier and cattle-dealer. J. FROME and CO. caliceprinters, Glasgow. J. GALBRAITH, sen, draper, Glasgow. J. LOCKHART, tailor and clothier, Glasgow. R. and J. DICKSON, cattle-dealers, Dunse. WINTON, clothier, Glasgow. R. KERR, spirit dealer, Glasgow. T. BROWN, manufacturer, Prelaw's Mill, Fife. J. KIRK, at Drumdryon, near Edinburgh. R. MITCHEL and J. MITCHEL, fleshers, Edinburgh, and JOHN MITCHEL, as sole surviving partner. W. CURLL, of Braes, lime-burner. J MILLIDGE and CO. stained-glass manufacturers, Edia burgh. T. MITCHELL, haberdasher. Leith. and M. NEILSON, wholesale tea-dealers, Glasgow. SHERIFF, jun. merchaut, Edinburgh. SON, upholsterer, Glasgow. NEIL and J. МАСVICAR, bleachers, Keirfield.

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J. NICHOL

under which the trade and manufactures of the country have been laboung, has abated more slowly than I had thought myself warranted in anticipating. But I retain a firm expectation that this abatement will be progressive, and that

the time is not distant when, under the blessing of Divine Providence, the commerce and industry ot the United Kingdom will have resumed their wonted activity."

After the King had left the House, Earl Cornwallis rose and moved the address. It contained nothing remarkable, beyond a justification of the policy of ministers, the necessity of the measure taken of opening the ports, and an allusion to the late disasters in the commercial world. His lordship concluded, as usual, by moving an address, the simple echo of the

speech. Lord Colville seconded the motion of the preceding lord, in doing which he made allusion to the Burmese war, and its fortunate termination. Lord King moved an amendment, declaratory of his sentiments on the policy pursued, and to be pursued at home; on the vicissitudes in trade; on the condition of the leading interests in the nation; on the currency; and, above all, on the Corn Laws. This amendment was negatived without a division. The Duke of Buckingham, Earl Darnley, Lord Liverpool, and other Lords, declared their sentiments on the speech, and the question was put upon the address, and carried. After some unimportant business, the House adjourned until the following day, when several peers took the oaths and their seats. On the 23d, the House adjourned at an early hour, for the purpose of carrying up the address to his Majesty.

House of Commons. The various attendants were at the House early on the 14th ult. The oaths were begun to be administered to the different members by the Lord High Steward of the Household, and by middle day about one hundred and fifty having been sworn in, they proceeded to the election of a Speaker. Mr. S. Bourne then moved, after an eulogium on the individual, that the Right Hon. C. M. Sutton should take the chair. The motion was seconded by Mr. Portman, and no opposition being shown, that member was declared duly elected into the office of Speaker of the House of Commons. On the following day, the House having returned from the Lords, whither it had been summoned, the Speaker announced that his appointment had received the royal approbation. He then returned thanks, and took the oaths of his office. The swearing in of Members was resumed, and other business incident to a new Parliament continued until the 21st, when the House attended at the Bar of the Lords to

hear the Speech read; and on its return, the bill for the prevention of Clandestine Outlawries was read a first and second time. Orders for the appointment of Committees were read, and members named. After some other preliminary business, the Speaker read the King's Speech. Mr. T. Liddell moved the address: he touched upon the principal points of the speech, averred his determination to support Ministers, while they acted for the advantage of the country in his view of the subject, and concluded as usual. Mr. Wynn seconded the address. The address being read from the chair, Mr. Brougham rose. The Hon. Gentleman complained of the neglect of the former custom, of giving an account of the nature of the royal speech beforehand. He said that many inconveniences had arisen from a neglect of the practice, Never had he heard a speech which touched so lightly, which said such nothings, upon some of the most important subjects. He did not attribute blame to the preparers of the speech: its defects were incident more or less to the prevailing passion for making such speeches, which were merely a civility on the part of the crown to parliament, and generally framed to say as little as possible on the most difficult circumstances of the times. He hoped to live to see the day when this useless, because unseemly, ceremony would be dispensed with. The Hon.Gentleman then noticed the speeches of the mover and seconder of the address; commented upon the omissions in the royal speech, and the vague mention of retrenchment; the neglect of even a simple notice of Ireland, of America, to which all eyes were turned; the allusions to the reduction of the public expenditure, which was absolutely necessary, while a sixpence should not be uselessly wrung from the people. He heard, nevertheless, of new palaces and new public works in the midst of general distress. Ministers could only do their duty by retrenching the public expenditure to the utmost, and pacifying Ireland by giving her her rights-by doing her justice. Mr. Canning next rose, and commented on the demand of the previous speaker for a copy of the speech prior to its delivery, and on the nothingness he had ascribed to it. The measure the Hon. Gentleman insisted upon was useless. The House had been called together at an inconvenient season of the year, not with a view of precipitating the discussion of any topics, but because, in deference to the law and constitution, it was necessary to provide for the indemnity of those who had, under a pressing necessity, violated the law. He then noticed the remarks of