Dollars and Tokens issued by the Bank. Number. Current Value. Intrinsic Value. Dollars. £. s. d. £. 8. d. 7,283,882 1,789,729 4 9 1,548,864 17 4 17,201,921 2,580,288 3 0 2,021,741 granted for the service of the year; and I am "My Lords and Gentlemen,The measures to which I have been under the necessity of resorting, for the suppression of those tumults and disorders which had unfortunately occurred in some parts of the kingdom, have been productive of the most salutary effects. I deeply lament the continuance of that pressure and distress which the circumstances of the country, at the close of so long a war, have unavoidably entailed on many classes of his Majesty's subjects. I feel fully persuaded, however, that after the many severe trials which they have undergone, in the course of the arduous contest in which we have been engaged, and the ultimate success which has attended their glorious and persevering exertions, I may rely with perfect confidence on their public spirit and fortitude in sustaining those difficulties, which will, I trust, be found to have arisen from causes of a temporary nature, and which cannot fail to be materially relieved by the progressive improvement of public credit, and by the reduction which has already taken place in the burdens of the people." Duties on Warehouses, forborne. A Circular from the Tax-Office has been addressed to the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes, stating the pleasure of the Lords of the Treasury to be, that the Collectors should not enforce the duties on houses sed solely as warehouses for the lodging of goods, wares, and merchandize, although they may have been formerly dwelling-houses. TO ALL POSTMASTERS. GENERAL POST OFFICE, JULY, 4, 1816.-An old Instruction was renewed in April, 1812, that all Postmasters should transmit to me, for the information of his Majesty's Postmaster General, an immediate account of all remarkable occurrences within their districts, that the same may be communicated if necessary, to his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. This has not been invariably attended to, and I am commanded by my Lords to say, that henceforward it will be particularly expected of every Deputy. I am your assured friend, 639,842 17 0 96 501,338 26 33,926,991 5,009,860 49 4,071,944 94 The new silver coinage is going on, rapidly. Near 300,000 new sixpences were coined within the last two or three' days. The new twenty-shilling pieces are to be called Sovereigns! it is said, and there are to be some Double Sovereigns!! S a Newspapers.The following is the amount of revenue derived from Newspapers: Newspaper Stamps for the whole kingdom of England. Duties on Advertisements for ditto Newspaper Stamps for the Duties on Advertisements Total £ 363,414 S 4 110,941 6 6 Royal Palace for sale. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent having signified his pleasure that the antient Palace at Newmarket should be no longer upheld as a Royal Palace, preparations are accordingly making for disposing of the property in the way most advantageous to the Crown. The new street now building on the eastern side of Middle Scotland-yard, of which several houses are already finished, is to be called Whitehall-street. It is 50 feet wide, and will be continued down to the river. Ships protected from weather. A new method has been lately adopted in all the King's dock-yards, with regard to the means of preserving such ships as may in future be built or repaired. It consists in the whole of the ships on the stocks, or in dock, being completely under cover by means of a large and capacious shed being erected over them, to keep off the effects of the sun and weather: windows and skylights are placed on each side and at the top, by which at all times a free circulation of air can take place, and the men employed are kept dry. t Additions had been made to the stamps, and to some other branches, upon which there was a small increase, so as to make the total receipt for the quarter as follows: July 5, 1815..... 12,040,288 1816..... ... 11,042,397 Total deficiency for the quarter ended July 5, 1816. £997,886 and this makes the deficiency of revenue this quarter to cover the charge of the Consolidated Fund for the same quarter, Progress of the Diving Bell. The beneficial effects of this curious machine display themselves in a prominent manner, as was lately strikingly evinced in Plymouth Sound. One day, Fisher, the diver, brought up with him, after fiftecu mautes' absence, a stone weighing 200tb. though nearly buried in shells and sand. The anchorage of the Sound having been swept for a mass of rock lost from one of the Breakwater vessels in May, 1818, and the same being found, the bell-vessel was placed over the spot, and the bell lowered, with Fisher and two other men, and proper implements for boring, in 39 feet of water, who succeeded in boring the stone, securing a lewiss, and miking fast a purliament, by which it appears that the total chase for heaving it up, all which was safely effected in about two hours and a half from the time of descending. The rock, thus recovered weighs four tons, and an eu-eight millions sterling! tire summer had been spent in trying to get ★ up, but ineffectually, owing to its peculiar form, which evaded sweeping. The rock has been landed at the King's-quarry, Oreston, for future conveyance to the Break water. no less than £2,197,602. Gold Coinage, amount of. A Document was lately laid before Par gold coinage of his present Majesty's reign amounts to the enormous and almost incre dible sum of between sixty-seven and sixty Religious liberality. About a fortnight ago, high mass was celebrated at the Catholic chapel, in Blake-street, York; a spectacle which has not been exhibited there, with so great a degree of splendour, during the last 300 years. New Light Houses. wich, made to the family of Major-General The lease of the light-houses at HarRebow, having nearly expired, Goveru Mr. Trollope, who was letely appointed to a Commission from the Military College, was the son of Captain Trollope, who was killed at the head of his grenadier company on his landing in Egypt. Some time ago, his Royal Highness the Duke of York wished to have a plan of the Battle of Waterloo,ment has granted a renewal to the Majorto hang up at the Lorse Guards, and it was General, upon his undertaking to rebuild assigned to some of the pupils of the Mil- the light-houses upon a given plan, aud tary College to execute it. The drawing of to exhibit lights in them upon an improved young Mr. Tro lope was the one selected inode. as being the best. The following apposite Lines were found written on the window of a small Inn, in the North: While bankrupt tenants nothing pay, While constant taxes round you ply; While duns incessant bar your way, The cheapest living is—to die. National Finances: Consolidated Fund. Price of Bread. bread throughout the metropolis and subThe general price of the best wheaten urbs, varies at from eleven-pence halfpenny to thirteen-pence the quartern loaf. Some sell from 1d. to 3d. per quarteru lower. Fenitentiary, Milbank. The following is the comparative state-house on Millbank is completed. The goThe quadrangle of the Penitentiaryiment of the respective quarters ending the vernor, with the task-masters and mis3th July, 1815 and 1816: Excise. tresses, &c. have taken possession of their apartments: and this week the prisoners from the different gaols will be removed thither. The rooms in which the convicts will reside, are very comfortable for individuals who have forfeited their claim to remain at large; they are about 12 feet by 6, lofty, with an arch, and glazed win dow, iron bedstead, table, and stool. The whole of them are warmed by means of flues placed in the passages, and proper measures are adopted to ensure regular ventilation. The rooms all look towards the 'centre of a circle (which is divided by brick walls 2 H into court-yards for exercise) where the principal task-master resides, and com mands a complete view of all that is doing. A chapel is also erecting, which, when the whole is completed, will form the centre of the building. Women are to act as turnkeys to the female prisoners, and all communication with the male convicts will be entirely proveted In the mean white, the other parts of the plan are pursuing on an enlarged scate. Ind a Sales, quarterly. since, has far exceeded expectation. The climate and soil appear to be well calculat ed for the production of that useful com modity, and Devon bids fair to be ultimately a considerable hop county. The plantations ou different estates in the pa rish of Whiniple are in so promising a state this season as to affor the most pleasing prospect of an abundant crop to the plan ters. LIGHTNING. A flock of sheep, 180 in number, the property of Mr. Roskelly, of The Court of Directors have given no- Ringworthy Farm, on the borders of Darttice, that it is their intention to hold quarnoor, were left in a field all well on Montery s les of the Company's Bengal, Coast, and Surat Piece Goods, and to continue day evening the 8th instant, and early on the same, unless due notice shall be given the following morning sixty-two of them were found king dead killed by lightning; to the contrary. The first quarterly sale their eves were forced from the sockets, will be hed on Tuesday the 10th day of and their bodies appeared as in a state of September next, and the succeeding sales, es nearly as may be to the 10 days of Putrefaction. The flocks of another farmer in the neighbourhood suffered severeDecember, March, and June respectively., and it is supposed that not less than It is computed that not less than 12,000 persons in the counties of Stafford and SaTop have been dismissed in consequence of the filing off in the iron trade since the peace. Sallows-The following extraordinary circumstance, in the natural history of the watow, which occurred at Christ-church, in this town, very forcibly illustrates the unusual coldness and backwardness of the Season On the mornings of May 5th and 6th the gardeners could have taken up Bundreds of these birds in their bands. They were collected in knots, and they Bal on the grass in parcels of 30 and 40, and suffered the men to take them up This, there is reason to believe, was owing both to cold and hunger. An immense mortar, used by the French at the siege of Cadiz, has been brought to this country, and is about to be placed on a platform in the park, opposite the Horse Guards it carries a shell three miles. Really the taste of the directors of these public decorations is of a very curious descriptions their things of ornament are without use, and their things of use are 400 sheep have been destroyed. Such was the vio euce of the storm, that a great number of large trees were rooted up, and the branches of others shivered to pieces. The lightning excited considerable alarm on some parts of the southern coast also, where great damage has been done, particularly in the gardens and orchards. The sportsmen apprehend that the wetness of the season must prove very injurious to all sorts of game, particularly partridges. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-By some unfor tunate accident, the powder mils on Houns low Heath blew up with a most dreadful explosion, on Tuesday evening. One nian, of the name of Nicholas Chingomwell was killed, and several others most desperately wounded. Water Spouts on Land. On the 16th July, two beautiful waterspouts were observed hovering over the vicinity of Newmillar Dam, near Wakefield. One of them was pointed, and hung straight down, something in the form of a jelly-bag; the other was considerably incurvated, and has been described to us as bearing no little resemblance to the leg of a man, beut, and with the toe downwards. We have not heard of any particular da. mage having heen done by the discharge of the water they contained. Honourable Memorial. On the 1st of July the foundation-stons was laid of a column erecting at Alnwick, by the Duke of Northumberland's tenants, to perpetuate the many acts of his Grace's benevolence and generosity, when a great concourse of people collected to see the or remony upon that occasion. Monument to Posterity. On the 22d of July, the foundation of a pedestal for a grand statue of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, was laid in the Pa rade in St. James's Park. It is to stand about ten feet distant from the iron railing in front of the Canal, facing the Dorse Guards. Rioters who were executed in the Isle of Ely. The following is an authe tie copy of their voluntary confession :-" We your poor mufortunate sustering fellow crentures, beg leave to present the public with this our last dying acknowledgment of the justice of that sentence, which has condemned us to die for the violent outrages we have committed, and hope it will be a warning to all, who may see, or hear of us, to avoid the like course. We acknowledge and confess our sins in general, aud we most sincerely beg of God to pardon our sins; fervently hoping and trusting that God Almighty will, for the sake of the all atoning merits of the Redeemer, re ceive our precious and immortal sous into his favour, though we have delayed their interests to this late hour; most earnestly entreating that the Almighty may grant us all our sufferings in this world, and none in the next. We most sincerely ward you all to avoid those sins, which have been the cause of bringing us here. A meeting of gentlemen connected with the hosiery business has taken place at the Exchange, for the purpose, as we under stand, of ascertaining the number of persons out of employ in this town and its viciuity, and of considering the best means to be adopted for alleviating their preseut distresses. A similar meeting took place at Hinckley a few days ago, when the more opulent part of the inhibitants agreed to iend a certain sum of money for the purpose of buying materiais, &c. to be worked up by each person out of employ, limiting the quantity of work to the number of each individual's family. A committee was appointed to take the management, and to dispose of the goods when manufactured, which, we understand it was agreed should not be sold under prime cost. The parish guarantee the subscribers against all loss, and also the payment of interest upon the ■ums advanced.—Leicest r Paper. Steam Engines of extraordinary Power. A letter from Sir C. Blagdon announces that they are at this moment constructing in Cornwall steam engines desired to work under a pressure of seven atmos pheres. The trials already made seem to indicate that they will be productive of immense advantages. In order to determine under what circumstances steamengines ought to produce the maximum of effect, keeping in view the quantity of coal ued, it is necessary to know the relation which may exist at different temperatures between the elastic force of the stream and the quantity of caloric necessary for its "By all means avoid irreligion and vice of every kind, particularly that of swearing, drunkenness, Sabbath breaking, and that of a shameful neglect of the means of grace, the only means through the merit of Christ, of our soul's salvation. We sin-production. cerely recommend to you, that you attend the public worship of God, particularly ou the Lord's day, and most sincerely pray that all our friends and relations will not put off their repentance to a death bed, lest that God, whom they have neglected to serve while in health and strength, should say unto them at last, as he does to every neglector of salvation Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hands and no man regardeth; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh.' Already had some French m.nufacturers ascertamed that the increase of the elastic force is superior to that of the caloric employed; for they found an advantage in working their machines under pressures superior to that of the atmos phere; but the form of their boilers did not admit of their much exceeding this terin. In England they have goue much further, by means of an invention of Mr. Woolf's, and which is combined in such a way as to employ the steam at very high pressures It seems also that the steamengines of this able engineer contain another useful modification, and which consists in the heated steam never being in immediate contact with the piston of the large cylinder, as it is in the common machines; in the latter case, as is well known, the piston soon loses its accurate adjustment, because the steam dissolves the greasy substances which lubricate it. In Mr. Woolf's apparatus the steam enter into a first cylinder, and there it presses ou the surface of a column of oil, which it forces into an interior cylinder, in which is the piston: it thus raises the piston without touching it, and lets it fall as soon as it is condensed. It is clear that this mechanism may be also applied on both sides of the piston, so as to produce a double effect. SCOTLAND. Ffects of Frugality. Perhaps it will not be generally credited fu England, that day-labourers in the felds, as well as operative weavers, are in this country supporting themselves and their familics on six and seven shillings a week, not only without rioting, but in numerous instances without complaining. Sagacity in Birds of prey. of Ely. Formerly Fellow and Tutor of Triuity College, and Professor of Chemistry; | B. A. 1759, M. A. 1782, D. D. 1771. 'This venerable and learned Prelate, whose pro-. found knowledge in theology and chemistry, has ranked him amongst the brightest ornaments of the present age, has enjoyed the high and valuable appointment of Regius Professor of Divinity for nearly half a century. FUNERAL OF MR. SHERIDAN. The remains of Mr. Sheridan were on Saturday, July the 15th, interred in Westminster Abbey, The place chosen was Poet's Corner; immediately opposite the monument of Shakespeare on one side, and The Ayr Journal states the following sin- the tomb of Addison on the other, in the gular circumstance:-"A few days since, middle of the aisle; the bead of the grave carrion crow perceiving a brood of four-is to the north. The mourners and attendteen chickens, under the care of the parent ben, on a lawn in front of a gentleman's seat, picked up one; but on a young lady opening the window and giving an alarm, the robber dropped his prey. In the course the day, however, the plunderer returned, accompanied by thirteen crows, when every oue seized his bird, and carved off the entire brood at once." IRELAND. Benevolent Institution for the Blind. The premises, which had been originally the mansion of the Molineaux family, and ince occupied by Mr. Astley, of London, as a Theatre, were, in 1815, taken of Sir C. Molineaux, at the rent of £100 per annum; and being in the last state of ruin, were fitted up at considerable expense, for the accommodation of 50 poor blind females, ants assembled at the house of Peter Westminster met the corpse at the west with a detached suite of five rooms for a chaplain. Upon the scite of the Theatre a chapel had been also built, 120 feet by 50, which seats commodiously about 600 perous this building aud the repairs have cost £1340.-The chapel was opened, by Mr. Crosthwaite, who performed the whole duty; and the collection amounted to £250. The establishment is by deed, consecrated to the Muses. The books of under five trustees, and 15 visiting ladies. the Cathedral were examined, and oral tesThe trustees express a confident expect-timony sought in all directions likely to afation, that the double object of promoting ford information; and after all, sufficient the gospel and relieving the blind, cannot fail to interest both the pious and humane space could only be found for one additional coffin, surrounded by the relics of Garof this country. rick, Cumberland, S. Johnson, Handel, and Henderson-Rowe, Thomson, Goldsmith, On Thursday, July 4th, died, at his and Gay; in the midst of whom, directly geat, Calgarth Park, Westmoreland, in the between Handel and Johnson, the re 9th year of his age, the Right Rev. Rich-mains of Sheridan have found a resting ard Watson, D. D. Lord Bishop of Llan-place with Cumberland at his side. daff, Regius Professor of Divinity in the We understand that the friends of Mr Juiversity of Cambridge, and Archdeacon Sheridan design to collect his scattered DEATHE. |