Some time ago, the Duke of Devonshire raised the ground-rents
of his cottages in North Derbyshire • which gave great dissatisfaction to the numerous holders under his Grace. This error has been remedied, Duke offering to allow the tenants to redeem the rents.and make gait cottages freeholds. This will introduce so many Liberal voters Writhe constituency as will strike a deathblow at the future hopes of Mr. Arkwright.—Sheffield Iris. So efficient has the new municipal system been found in Leicester, t20000/. of the infamously, incurred debts of the old Tory body have been paid off, and the economy of the new system has insured an Mcrease of income of 1,000/. per annum.—Staffordshire Examiner. We give our Colonies a monopoly of the home market : in return, we ought to have, and many people imagine we have, a monopoly of the Colonial market. The reciprocity is a delusion. The goods of the Germans, the Belgians, and other Continental manufacturers, glut on Colonial markets, to the exclusion of our own. Of the single article of matchetts, there was lately shipped, for the British West ladies, a German order, which all the matchett-makers in Bir- etiogham could not have completed in six months. In nearly every description of hard-ware the home maker is crushed by the foreign. Ile is undersold in England, as well as in Jamaica. The process ilium*. There is hardly a house of respectability in the trade whose wits are not familiarly imitated by the Continental manufacturers. The goods come to England, are sold here, or reshipped for the Colonies, as the produce of Birmingham and Sheffield, The evil is rat and growing ; and, we fear, cannot be diminished.—Birminghani Journal.
The Duke of Northumberland munificently subscribed 500/. towards defraying the expenses of the approaching meeting of the British Association in Newcastle. Mr. Ord, M.P., has also given 501.; and the Coal-trade intends to subscribe a sum of not less than 500/. to the sole fund. We understand that 2,000/. will be required.—Gateshead Observer.
Mr. Thomas Williams, lately tried and acquitted at the Old Bailey
tea charge of forging a will, was received throughout his progress to his estate near Carnarvon in the most triumphant manner. The people of that town went out in procession, thousands in number, to meet him; they yoked themselves to his carriage-horses, and drew him in tri- umph to his hotel; whence he addressed the assemblage. The same bosoms awaited him on leaving the town ; the people still drawing him in triumph to his house, Brynbras Castle. Several villages and towns ja the neighbourhood illuminated their houses on the occasion.
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