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Archdeacon Glover is an earnest friend to the abolition of Church- rates; Archdeacon Glover pretends to be a zealous Whig; Archdeacon Glover spent Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week, in his parish at Bungay ; and the day after he departed, his Churchwarden, Mr. Scott, obtained distress warrants against all the Church. rate recusants. A very consistent man is Archdeacon Glover, and likely to tnake the Church popular in Suffolk !
Hay-cutting has commenced very generally around Kendal and in the neighbouring districts. The crop seems, with but few exceptions, rather thin.-1Yesorioreland Gazette.
The hay-crops are, in the neighbourhood of Chesterfield, very abun. dant, and some fields are already cut ; in a few days mowing will have very generally commenced ; and from the extremely favourable state of the weather, it is confidently anticipated that the crops will be well got in.—Derbyslrire Courier.
Nothing can exceed the improvement which has taken place ;mall the crops within the last fortnight, rendering the promise of abundance in all respects most gratifying. Mowing has commenced under the most auspicious circumstances in the immediate vicinity of Swansea; and, before the week has expired, will be very general throughout the neighbournood, should the weather continue fine.—Cambrion. The accounts from the manufacturing districts respecting the state of trade are much the same as last week.
The Swan of Hull, the last of the missing whalers, arrived off Peterhead on the 29th of June. She lost eighteen of her crew, and brought home three whales. It is expected that part of the London and Birmingham Railway from London to Box Moor, near Hemel Hempstead, will be opened in about a fortnight. The Directors have already made a journey that distance—tvventy-five miles. The Grand Junction Railway was completely opened on Tuesday. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle gives the following account of the first day's journey-
" The trains on the Grand Junction Railway began to run to-day ; and ex- cited much interest throughout. the whole line, the road being almost covered with people. This circumstance tendered the passing of the trains at great speed highly dangerous, and the novelty of the whole thing both to the people and to the clerks at the various stations led to some delay. The trains from Liverpool and Manchester at half-past six arrived at Birmingham about half- past eleven. Another train was delayed one hour ; whilst a second-class train, Aid] had to stop at all the iutermediate stations, was nearly an hour and a half longer than it should have been. On the other hand, the Directors' train from Birmingham at twenty minutes past eleven (which I accompanied) arrived at Liverpool at half. past three ; and bad it not overtaken the retarded second-class train at Warrington, would have performed the journey in three hours and half. The time with this train (although there were several stoppages for water, coke, .1q.c.) to Warrington, about seveaty-eight miles, was just three hours—making twenty-six miles an hour, including stoppages. The Directors tsere highly satisfied. Judging from the appearance of the trains, I should say that upwards of 1,000 persons will have been booked in the Company's offices to day. Every thing Las gone off well so far. The road is in excellent order, and nothing can bid fairer than this railway does of becoming very useful as well as profitable."
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