The Duke of Northumberland has presented the Dublin College of
Surgeons with 5001. to enable them to complete their anatomical apparatus. The Duke of Northumberland has presented the Dublin College of Surgeons with 5001. to enable them to complete their anatomical apparatus. A meeting was held at Bury last week, for the purpose of getting up a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the Malt-duty.
A meeting has recently been held in Liverpool, at which it was determined to form a company for the purpose of constructing a railway between Birmingham and Liverpool. The line of road proposed is the same as the one projected at the meeting held in Birmingham three weeks ago.—Bientinghern Journal.
The extensive improvements on the Birmingham Canal were so far completed as to allow the boats from the collieries on the Wednesbury line to pass through tro new level on Friday week. By these improvements the whole of ten locks ar- avoided, and the distance between Birmingham and Wednesbury reduced to
ut 7i miles.—Serfordshire Advertiser. it-fr. Greet, the Mayor of Queenborough, died last week ; and the poor people of he place made a holyday in houour of the event. They paraded the streets w -it flags, and those who could afford it illuminated their houses in the evening!
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