A most effectual method of cleansing public sewers was last
week put in practice by the Board of Health in Whitehaven to a consider- able extent. The instrument made use of was one of the fire-engines; by which a copious supply of water was driven through the gratings with such force as completely to wash away the filth which had accu- mulated. We trust the whole of our sewers will be cleansed in a similar manner.—Whitehaven Pacquet.
Two acres one rood and twenty-eight perches of orchard and meadow land, near the village of Shrawton, in Wilts, were recently sold for the large sum of 4251.—Fahnouth Packet.
The hop-picking is now general ; and all accounts concur in the crop falling short of estimation. In many plantations there is quite one third short; but we never saw the quality finer, where they are clean and free from vermin.—Maidstone Gazette.
On Friday last, as the gamekeeper of Lord Selsey, at West Dean, was going his morning rounds to examine his traps, he found, to his astonishment, not a solitary captive, but thousands. A swarm of bees, of sufficient weight to cause their capture, had alighted on the trap plate.—Portsmouth Herald.
Carlisle was visited by a tremendous storm of thunder, lightning, and hail, -about seven on Thursday evening [the 13th], which continued for about an hour.
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