enrious in horticulture and in the preser At New Shoreham, Mrs. Rudball. KAMPSHIRE. On opening a vault in the middle aisle of the west transept of Winchester cathedral, a stone cetin was discovered immediately under the surface of the pavement, supposed to contain the remains of a prelate or a mitred abbot. A ring of pure gold, with an amethyst, about the size and shape of a turkey's eye, set therein, and part of a crosier, much decayed, were found in the coffin; but few vestiges of the body remained. The crook and ferrule of the crosier were of metal, and the shaft of wood, quite plain. A most extraordinary prosecution has, it is said, been commenced against John Huntley, of Berkley, in Hampshire, for having maimed his own son, by cutting off his finger, for the purpose of rendering him unfit for the army, into which the young man had enlisted! The Lords of the Admiralty have visited Portsmouth; and, as the result, the masthonse is to be removed and enlarged, and officers' houses erected on the present spot. Messrs. Rennie and Whitby have been surveying Portsmouth Harbour, with a view to the removal of the mud-banks, and to increase the ingress of water each tide. Married.] At Newport, Mr. Hubbard to Miss Brown. Mr. T. Brine, of Portsea, to Miss Sarah Walker. At Gosport, Lieut. Maxwell, to Miss Wildey. At Southampton, Mr. E. Cushen, to Mrs. Gillmau. Died.] At Southampton, Mrs. Fiatt, regretted by all classes.-Mrs. Andrews. -Mrs. Hooper. At Haslar, Lieut. John Marston. In an apoplectic fit, the Rev. John Forbes, rector of South Wainborough, Hauts, and formerly fellow of St. John's college, Oxford, and vicar of Kirtlington. MA. Jan. 15, 1787; B.D. April 24, 1792; D.D. April 30, 1799. At Alton, Mr. Robt. Trimmer, attorney at law. At Ryde, Mr. Geo. Hatfield.-64, Mr.. Samuel Stephens. At Twyford, the Rev. Mr. Stretch, master of a respectable seminary of education, and author of several popular works. WILTSHIRE. Married.] The Rev. George Augustus Biedermann, of Burton Cottage, near Malmsbury, to Helen, eldest daughter of William Price, esq. of Gloucester. At Salisbury, R. Oakley, esq. of Wimborn Minster, to Saralı, eldest daughter of Mrs. Moss. At Overton, Mr. Dark, of Eddington, to Miss Sarah Neale. At Longbridge Deverell, Mr. William Pearce, to Miss Sarah Sturgis, Mr. Robert Hall, of South Shields, to George Monkland, esq. Capt. in the SOMERSETSHIRE. The Mayor and Magistrates of the City of Bath, for the purpose of giving increased effect to their late resolution of "suspending, for the present, the power vested in them of setting the weekly Assize and and Price of Bread," have given notice to the bakers residing in Bath, as well as those in the vicinity, that part of the public Market House will be open every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, for the sale of bread: and, in order to promote a due competition in the trade, for the benefit of the public, the standings on such days will be free of any toll or charge whatever. The object, says Mr. Meylor in the Bath Herald, has been attained to the full expectation--good bread having been sold there, throu hout this week, at the reduced price of 12. the quatern loaf. In the market there is no rent or tax to be paid out of the profits--no credit. given-no bad debts, which form a woeful per contra on the leaves of the baker's ledger; and no wages to pay to servants of dubious fidelity, for carrying round the bread. DR. GIEBES, of Bath, has published in the last number of that invaluable professional work, the Medical and Physical Journal, the following particulars of the Melksham chalybeate and saline aperient spa, situated near the Great London Road, about half a mile from the Town of Melksham, and twelve miles from Bath. The spring rises in a field near Melksham, from nearly the top of a mound of earth, which was formed about fifty years ago of the materials which had been dug out in sinking a shaft for the purpose of seeking for coal. Salts, both earthy and saline, with sulphuric acid, are contained in this water; for a precipitation ensues on the addition of muriate of barytes and the oxalate of ammonia. A prodigious precipitation takes place on the addition of the nitrates of mercury, and of silver; therefore the water contains a large proportion of muriatic salts, the principal of which is the muriate of soda, or common salt. The crystallization of an immense number of cubes, when examined in the microscope, shows this fact, and points out a resem blance between this water and that of Leamington. Married.] At Bath, Woolley Leigh Spencer, esq. to Alicia Anne, daughter of Rob. M'Clintock, esq. of Duumore. --Archibald Paull, esq. of St. Christopher's, to Miss Elza Herbert, of Bath-Hampton.-Wm. Henry Byam, esq. captain in the royal navy, to Miss Alicia, sister of Capt. Wyke, of Bath. At Raby, esq. to Miss Smith, of Somerset-place. Mr. Samuel Crater, of Chard, to Dorothy, daughter of the late Rev. Robert Stephens, vicar of Chardstock. At the Abbey-church, the Rev. Wm. Harris March, of Frome, to Eleanor Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Griffith, of Widcombe. At Bridgewater, Mr. John Murles, of the Seven Stars Iun, to Miss Joanna Lea ker. At Yeovil, Mr. Coleman, artist, to Miss Mary Cayme, youngest daughter of Mr. James C. At Evershot, Mr. Samuel Johnson, of Martock, to Miss Jane Pitcher. At Rampisham, Mr. Wm. Soper, to Miss Elizabeth Hembury. Mr. Praukard Tannar, of Bristol, to Miss Kitching, of Milton, near Wells. At Sherborne, William Millard, esq. of Weston Grove, near Bath, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Joseph Safford, esq. of Kingsdown. James Balfe, esq. of Drumcondra, county of Meath, and Lieut. in the Meath militia, to Miss Mary Sutherland, daughter of James S. esq. of Bath. Died.] At Bath, in Caroline-buildings, John Powell, esq. aged 75.-Miss Hunt, of Kensington-buildings.-Mrs. Spry, wife of Mr. S. surgeon, of Silverton-Mr. Arthur Broom, of this city. Mr. George Pippet, of Gay's-place, Walcot, late of Croscombe.-38, Clementina, wife of Rich. Perry Ogilvie, esq.-In Park-street, Mrs. Lee, aged 93.-The Rev. Mr. Pattinson, formerly head-master of Stourbridge school. As he was riding on horseback, his horse took fright at a load of furze, at the halfway house between Worcester and Kidderminster, and he was unfortunately rown and died almost instantly. Mrs. Watkins, wife of Mr. W. trunk-maker, in Cheap-street.-Mr. Richard Codrington, Cork-cutter, of Stall-street-In Greek street, Mrs. Owens, relict of Mr. O. formerly a brewer.-63, The Rev. Harry Downing, vicar of Wiveliscombe -In Broad-street, 63, Mrs. Mary Errington.— Miss Terry, sister of Mr. T. hosier, Abbey-street. At Bridgewater, 83, Mr. Hugh Hurford. At Taunton, 91, Mrs. Franklin, relict of the late Mr. Matthew F.--80, Mr. Wm. Brailey. - Miss Martha Burge.-Mrs. Wyat.-Mr. Staddon, of Stogursey; in returning from Bridgewater market, he was thrown from his horse,and killed on the spot. At Wellington, Mr. Bridge, surgeon, who long sustained the character of a humane and skilful practitioner. Near Chard, George Waltar, esq. At Warminster, of an apoplectic fit, Mrs. Vinen, widow of Mr. Jas. V. collector of excise in Bath. At Wells, Thomas Fuller, esq. banker, At Bathford, 73, Mrs. Phillippa Elliot Holder, mother of John Hooper Holder, of Cerney-house, Cirencester. At East Harptry, Mary, wife of Charles Ozen, esq. DORSETSHIRE. Application is to be made to Parliament, for a bill for making and maintaining a bridge, from the Ferry House of Wyke Regis, across the arm of the sea, to the opposite shore, in Portland. Application is likewise to be made to Parliament, for a bill for constructing a pier or break-water, and for forming a harbour in Portland Roads, for the reception, shelter, and security of ships of the line, and other vessels, by erecting the said pier from the north east end of Portland Island; and for making an inclined plane or ral-way, for the passage of carriages to the pier along the north-east and eastern side of the island. How difficult it is to beat down vnlgar errors ! How impossible to convince the GREAT and small vulgar, that the age of ghosts has passed away; that Bonaparte is not the devil, that many things which they see in print are not true; that witches no longer have power; that there was no intelligible public ground for commencing the present war; and, in fine, that there was but one Queen Anne's farthing coined? Hence we have an advertisement in Cruttwell's Sherborne Journal, from a Mrs. Jane Dyght, of Ilton, to announce that she is possessed of the long sought Queen Anne's farthing, for which she has been offered a considerable sum, but expects a competi tion of purchasers! We fear we may spoil her market, when we state, that on a former enquiry on this foolish subject, it appeared that at least a score of persons were possessed of this unique coin in different parts of the kingdom. Married.] Mr. Samuel Crater, of Chard, to Dorothy, daughter of the late Rev. Rob. Stephens, vicar of Chardstock. At At Great Canford, Mr. E. Barrett, silver. smith, of Christchurch, to Miss Conway, of Longfleet, near Poole. At Blandford, Mr. S. Towsey, to Miss Hughes. At Isle-Brewers, Mr. Angei Dameon, of Seaborough, near Crewkerne, to Frances, eldest daughter of Joseph Taylor, esq. of Isle-Brewers. Mr. Isaac Bindon, to Miss C. Hibberd. Died.] At Lynie, Miss Bradstock, danghter of the Rev. R. B.-Mrs. Parsons, wife of Mr. P. attorney, Bridgwater. At Dorchester, 70, Mrs. Friend, relict of the late F. esq. Anne Jane, youngest child of the late Henry Redhead Yorke, esq. Mary, the wife of Charles Ozen, esq. of East Harptry. Mrs. Spry, wife of Mr. S. surgeon, of Silverton. At Crancorn, Mr. James Gutheridge, linen-draper. At Marnhull, Mr. Isaac Cole. Mrs. Symonds, wife of Mr. W. S. jun, of Blandford. At Seavington St. Mary, Mr. Thomas Naish; as a practical farmer very few were his equal, and his loss will be severely felt by the poor of the parishes of Seavington and Shepton Beauchamp. DEVONSHIRE. According to the report of Mr. S. Barnes, the able surgeon of the West of England Eye Infirmary, the following appears to be the benefits which have resuited from this excellent institution; Total number of patients admitted since the opening of the charity 2595 Total number of patients discharged, cured of blindness from cata- Total number of patients discharged .... 143 2185 It is said the Plymouth Breakwater has already a visible effect on the swell in Plymouth Sound. Married.] Rev. P. M. Osborne, to Miss M. Shore, both of Exeter. The Rev. Thomas Grinfield, jun. of Bristol, to the eldest daughter of John Foster Barham, esq. M. P. for Stockbridge. At Sidmouth, Mr. T. Newbery, surgeon, to Miss Bartlett. Died.] At Exeter, 82, Mrs. Hall, relict of the late Rev. Joseph Hall, vicar of Salcombe, Mr. Robert Hake.-At an advanced age, Mrs. Sanford, widow.-Mrs. Smale. In consequence of a severe wonnd, received in the battle of the 31st of August before St. Sebastian's, Lieut. George Follett, of the 43d light regiment, eldest son of B. Follett, esq, of Topshani, On the MONTHLY MAG. No, 217, 30th of August he landed in Spain; and on the following day, whilst the detachment were on their march to join the light division, they heard the distant firing of batten the quarter to which they were proceeding. This animated them to push forward and partake in it; and exertions of the most extraordinary kind were made by the officers for the purpose. At length they succeeded, and joined the 4th division of the army, then engaged with the enemy, not being able to reach their own; and in the battle he received a mortal wound, which on the following day terminated his short and eventful career at the early age of 18 years. The officers of his regiment with whom he served will long hold in their remembrance the truth of the character given of him by the com manding officer of the detachment," that had his life been prolonged, he would have been an ornament to his profession, an example for youth, and the pride of his family." The affliction into which his sudden and premature loss has plunged his family will be long and deeply felt, and will best speak his private worth; for he was all a parent could hope for or desire in a child. CORNWALL. Married.] At Launceston, Bethnal Hutchings, esq. of Moorwinstow, to Mrs. Margaret Thomas. At Truro, Mr. Martin, of St. Columb, to Miss Giddy. Died.] The Rev. John Lewis, vicar of Luxullian. At Falmouth, Mrs. Fortescue, late Mrs. Langdon, druggist. WALES. Sir Watkin Williams Wynne has followed the glorious example of Francis, Duke of Bedford, and established an annual agricultural festival at his magnificent seat at Wymistay. We have not room to detail the interesting proceedings, which had for their object to recommend every species of improvement in machinery, cultivation, and stock, and which cannot fail to be attended by the happiest effects in a district where the practice of agriculture is a centry behind the rest of the kingdom. Nearly 600 visitors, including eight peers, were sumptuously entertained in the great hall of that noble mansion, which has long been considered as one of the wonders of Wales, and the reputation of which for hospitality is so well maintained by the present worthy and truly patriotic baronet. Married.] The Rev. Daniel Williams, of Frongoch, to Miss B. Vaughan, of Llanfyllin, The Rev. David Williams, of Ystrad, meining, to Miss Morris, of Blaennant. Arthur Raby, esq. of Llanaly, to Miss H. J. Smith. Died.] At Lampeter, Mrs. J. N. A. Wil liams, wife of the vicar. AL At Abergwilly, 103, Mr. R. Allen, of the White Horn. 78, The Rev. Tho. Davis, 48 years minister of the independent congregation. At Penybout, 67, Thomas Jones, esq. At Aberystwith, James Shepherd, esq. of Rheola. SCOTLAND. On the 15th of August, the prisoners in the depot of Perth, celebrated the birthday of the Emperor of France, and a balloon having been prepared by Mr. Cuyper, from Ghent, with much skill and industry, a uumber of persons assembled to witness its ascension. At night all the prisons were brilliantly illuminated, and in some of the windows were transparencies, which had a fine effect, and were executed with much taste. Portglasgow, nineteen miles from Glasgow, beautifully situated among gardens, on the banks of the Clyde, has an ex cellent harbour, into which the largest ship in the navy could sail, and where, on the 20th of August, forty large West Indiamen were lying, besides smaller vessels. It has a very fine dry dock; four ship-building yards; a rope work; a sail-cloth manufactory, the yarn for which is spun by means of one of Watt and Bolton's great steam engines, and many other public works. It contains seven thousand inhabitants, has very fine water, and is considered uncommonly healthy. IRELAND. At Adare, in the county of Limerick, on the 10th of September, at nine in the morning, a shower of stones fell from a thunder-cloud, extending about a mile and a half, with a sound like the discharge of artillery, followed by a noise resembling the rolling of drums. The day was heavy and hot; there were several loud explo. sions, which continued about ten minutes; no lightning was seen. Several of the stones weigh from one to four pounds: they are black outside, extremely heavy, and much burnt; when broken they are of an even dingy grey.—(We should be glad to receive a more particular account.) REPORT OF DISEASES, In the Practice of a Physician, in Westminster; from the 25th of September to Within the last thirty days a very large quantity of rain has fallen; the weather has been changeable and cold, with gales of wind, and some lightning. The effect of this on the human frame has manifested itself. Rheumatism has affected many individuals in its severest forms; but the chronic state has been the most frequent. Pulmonary complaints have increased. Scarlet fever and hooping cough are spreading. One of the cases of scarlatina, an infant, that was insensible and could not swallow at the time of my visit, died very shortly afterwards. The father of the child, and its brother, in about a week became affected with the complaint. The former did not suffer much; but in the son, the disorder, almost from the first, assumed a malignant character. Bark, the mineral acids, and laudanum, as the symptoms demanded, had a marked good effect; for, in the commencement of the complaint, an opposite plan was pursued, and the beneficial consequence of changing the treatment was presently obvious. This was also the case in an adult affected with inflammatory sore-throat; as it changed in character for the worse, a more stimulating cordial plan, with a mineral acid, succeeded. In these instances I place more reliance upon the acid than the bark. The cases of phrenitis hardly come under that head, but Sauvages has enumerated a species of phrenitis sine pyrexia cum inflammatione cerebri et meningum. The subjects were twins, boys, aged five years; they were affected with debility and constant delirium, without any fever or other morbid appearance. Their mother had just died of a lingering complaint, towards the conclusion of which she had been delirious: the family supposed the children were affected with a similar complaint. They both Recovered. In all these cases, and in some others in the present list, which I cannot now enlarge upon, it appeared to me that the weather had considerable influence. Damp coubined with cold, has a decidedly depressing effect upon the vital power. In a state of high health, this cause of disease is resisted; the animal heat is generated as rapidly as the occasion demands; the arterial circulation is not impeded, and cousequently the perspiration is not checked. Where, again, the action of the heart and arteries is in excess, whether from accession of fever, or the temporary excitement of stimulation, the application of cold and wet is beneficial, by abstracting the undue augmentation of heat, and reducing the circulation to its natural standard. Applied in a state of body below the healthy condition, these agents produce pulmonic disease, rheumatism, sore-throat, &c. and, by depressing the vital power, dispose some diseases to assume a maliguant character. It is generally supposed that heat has this effect, and that fevers, for instance, have a worse type in hot weather than in cold. This may be true, without involving a paradox. Whatever greatly excites the nervous and sanguineous systems, ultimately exhausts and debilitates: this is the case with heat; but its consequences may be prevented by cold and moisture. The practical application of this principle is finely demonstrated in the present simple and improved mode of treating fevers. Although cold and damp, combined together, produce a depressing effect upon the system; cold alone, at least as it appears in our climate, is invigorating, and even stimulating. Thus, in frosty weather, we see the whole frame robust, the heart and arteries acting with vigour, and all the functions proceeding well, yielding a pleasant and grateful feeling, and we are conscious of a pleasurable state of existence. The frost breaks up, and the thaw is followed with an epidemic catarrhal fever. Craven-street, Oct. 26, 1815. S. FOTHERGill. REPORT OF THE PROGRESS OF CHEMISTRY. a R. BRANDE, the ingenions successor of Sir Humphrey Davy in the chemical on the state in which alcohol, or pure ardent spirit, exists in fermented liquors. It has been usually supposed that alcohol was a product of the process of distillation, and the experiments of Mr. B. have been instituted with a view to ascertain the correctness or incorrectness of this opinion. He had previously concluded that any new arrangement of the ultimate elements of wine, which could occasion the formation of alcohol, would constantly be attended with other marks of decomposition, and that carbon would be deposited, or carbonic acid evolved; neither of which circumstances does actually take place. He has succeeded in shewing that alcohol may be separated from wine without the intervention of heat, and that the same proportion may be thus procured as that yielded by distillation. His plan is as follows. He first separates the colouring matter and the acid of the wine, by means of a concentrated solution of subacetate of lead, and then, by sub-carbonate of potash, he finally disengages from it the alcohol. He answers the assertion, that a mixture of alcohol and water, in the same proportion in which it exists in wine, is much more intoxicating than the same quantity of wine itself, by proving that the union is incomplete: and he states also, that the acid and extractive matter, blunt very much the real strength of the wine. Mr. B. therefore, again concludes, that the whole quantity of alcohol which is found after distillation, had actually pre-existed in the fermented liquor operated on. Mr. Gay-Lussac has now demonstrated that there are only three different oxides of iron which are perfectly distinct from each other; and that the various colours which some of them assume arise from their different states of aggregation. The first oxide, which is white, and which is obtained whenever iron decomposes water by means of an acid, the acid not furnishing the oxygen by being itself also decomposed, consists of 100 parts of ixon, and 28 of oxygen. The second oxide, which is produced by burning iron in oxygen, or in atmospheric air, at a very elevated temperature, or where water is decomposed by iron without the auxiliary presence of an acid, contains 38 per cent. of oxygen. This second oxide, when in a mass, is of a blackish grey colour, and when precipitated, is of a deep brown, but when very minutely divided, it is green. It is also very magnetic. The third, the red oxide, is composed of 100 parts of iron and 42 parts of oxygen. In a natural state the white oxide does not exist, except in combination with carbonic acid. The celebrated hypothesis of Sir Humphry Davy, which assures that muriatic acid is a compound of chlorine and hydrogen, and not a compound, as has hitherto been supposed, of oxygen and some unknown base, is still unsanctioned by the opinions of many of our first chemists. Among these, Professor Berzelius, of Stockholm, says, although it is difficult, experimentally, to demonstrate the incorrectness of Sir Humphry's hypothesis, that, according to the very luminous doctrine of definite proportions, which was first given to the chemical world some years ago, by the celebrated Mr. Dalton, of Manchester, and of the truth of which Sir Humphry himself, with every 3C2 other |