BERKS.

One thousand acres of land were Jately sold, in the parish of Easthamstead, for 51. per acre, by the Commissioners appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in 1821, for inclosing the waste lands within the said manor and parish, which lands, according to the preamble of the Act, are to be greatly improved by inclosure. It must have been a popular measure, for great and small are said to have signed the Petition for the Bill, from the humble inmate of the poor-house to the Lord of the Manor.

CORNWALL.

The Justices, at the Quarter Sessions at Bodmin, have ordered that a treadwheel be immediately erected in the Bridewell-yard, for the employment of the prisoners liable to be kept at hard labour.

DEVON.

Orders have been received in the Plymouth Dock-yard for the men to work the long hours in winter, viz. from six till a quarter after five, from the 25th of October to the 9th of November, and afterwards from half-past seven to a quarter before five. It is also directed that 20 per cent. be deducted from the present prices of job and task work. Sixty men, of whom fifty-four were labourers, were discharged from the Dock-yard on Friday last.

R. Ward, Esq. M.P. from the Ordnance Office, has inspected the Artillery Barracks on the Topsham Road, near Exeter, and we understand, the whole will be shortly disposed of.

The swell in the rivers, occasioned by the late rains, has brough down a vast number of eels, some thousand pounds weight of which have been sold in Exeter at from 2d. to 4d. per Ib. Salmon, from the same cause, has been plentiful, at 6d. to Is. per lb.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

At the Rookery, at Wanswell-farm, near Berkeley, there are, at this time, several nests of young rooks, and some other nests on which the old birds are now sitting.

HANTS.

A requisition has been signed by the Yeomanry of Hampshire, for the High Sheriff to call a County Meeting, to petition both Houses of Parliament to take into consideration the alarming state of their property.

KENT.

The dangerous situation of the once much-admired ruins of Ethelbert's Tower, at Canterbury, awfully projecting, rendering it expedient to level that beautiful remain of antiquity, the battering ram was brought to bear on one side of its massy angles, but its compact masonry for some time resisted the united efforts of the workmen. The surrounding spectators uttered shouts of exclamation, as though they had achieved a victory; while the attentive antiquarian could scarce refrain a tear at the premature fate of an object of his earliest veneration and constant regard. Not any thing now remains of this once beautiful specimen of gothic architecture but a shapeless mass of ruin. Several relics have been selected from that mass, which will no doubt be preserved with pious care.

LANCASHIRE.

A curious piece of antiquity was lately found, in digging for turf upon Leyland Moss, Lancashire. It consists of a kind of medal of the exact size of half-a-crown, with a handle about two inches in length, of the same metal as the medal, which is brass. On one side is an effigy of the Pope, and the same head reversed shows the profile of a figure, which appears to be intended for a bust of the devil; the inscriptiou on this side runs as follows: ECCLESIA. PERVERSA. TENET. FACILEM. DIABOLI. On the other is a plain profile with the following motto-E. GODFREY. MORIENDO. RESTITVIT. REM. The piece was found several yards below the surface, and about two hundred paces from where a number of Roman coins were discovered some time ago.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

It affords us unfeigned pleasure to contrast the present state of the hosiery trade in this town, with what it was eighteen months or two years ago. About the middle of 1820, frameworkknitters by hundreds might daily be noticed traversing the streets in vain in search of employment. Now, what with an increased demand for goods, and a disinclination on the part of the workmen to labour to the extent which they did when compelled to do so by low prices, and the high price of provisions, manufacturers can with great difficulty execute their orders in due time.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

A respectable farmer, of North Petherton, sold, at the late Fair, twenty prime Somerset ewes for fifteen pounds. The same farmer sold a fat pig, two years ago, for ten shillings more than the twenty ewes now fetched!

A quarrel took place lately at Frome between two men; when about to setto, one of them observed that his opponent had but one eye, and, scorning to take the least advantage, immediately and gallantly tied his handkerchief over one of his own eyes.

A tradesman left Bath lately to collect some accounts, amounting to upwards of a hundred and thirty pounds. He called at twenty-three places within a circle of twenty miles, and received the enormous sum of three shillings! -his journey cost him 10s. 4d. From people who had been heretofore most punctual, not a shilling was to be had.

SUSSEX.

The Ex-empress of Hayti, with her family, are now resident at Hastings, and much respected by the distinguished visitants to that place.

WILTS.

Within the last five years, we understand, that not less than 500 houses, forming streets, &c. have been built in the town of Trowbridge, and are now inhabited; and that a great number more are in a state of forwardness. This town now contains more inhabitants than any other in the county; its trade still continues extremely brisk, and many of the manufacturers are obliged to keep workmen employed night and day, in order to execute their orders in time.

YORKSHIRE.

On Wednesday the 30th October, Andrew Allan Hardy, esq. of Sheffield, was elected coroner for the west riding of the county of York, in the room of John Foster, esq. deceased.

A numerous and respectable meeting of the York Whig Club took place on Monday 25th inst. York. Both the Members attended, and the speeches evinced both zeal and sincerity in behalf of reform. A requisition is signing throughout Yorkshire for a county meeting, to petition for reform: and the committee appointed for the purpose of taking measures on the subject, will, it is said, open a correspondence with the leading

landholders throughout England, for the purpose of arranging all the other counties to assemble for the same purpose.

William Brown, esq. of Liverpool, having visited his estate at Ormesby, in Cleveland, ordered his steward to call a meeting of his tenants, when their farms were again re-let to them at a reduction of thirty per cent. The worthy and generous landlord then ordered a dinner to be provided for them at the Red Lion, on the Friday following, at his own expense-When will a Noble Lord in this neighbourhood imitate this?

WALES.

A report has got into circulation, that government contemplates discontinuing the Milford and Waterford Packet Establishment altogether. The disadvantages, in a political and commercial point of view, that may result to South Wales, the adjoining counties of England, and the whole of the south-west of Ireland, if that measure be adopted, are incalculable. According to the present line of conveyance from Swansea to Waterford, the time occupied is about twenty-one hours, and the distance about 155 miles, the postage being 10d.; while the proposed rout, it is estimated, will occupy ninety-six hours, making the distance about 478 miles, and the postage about 28.

SCOTLAND.

The foreign trade appears to be rather in an improving state than otherwise, as we learn that the sum remitted to London from customs alone, was, last quarter, 43,0681. 6s. 8d. more than in the corresponding quarter of last year, and the excess during the whole year beyond the preceding one,23,1811.5s. 7d.

The Royal Bank of Scotland have come to the resolution of charging in. terest on cash account credits, at the rate of four per cent. only, at their office here, and at their branch in Glasgow.

The election of a Lord Rector for the University of Glasgow has produced an unusual contest this year. Sir Walter Scott and Sir James Mackintosh were the competitors. Sir James was elected by a great majority, having 750 votes out of 1000.