The Bishop of Durham presided at a dinner of the
British Asso- ciation, and took the opportunity of introducing to the notice of the company the claims of u lady, Mrs. Taylor, " a handsome woman, and well dressed too," as the Bishop naively expressed himself, who being the daughter of a mathematician, had cultivated science with success, and published a work on navigation, which he believed to be the best extant. The Bishop further said, he was exerting himself to procure from Government a pension for this lady, who now teaches navigation,- some of her pupils being old captains of sixty !
The importance of cheap bread to the nation, and the inhumanity of the Corn-laws' will be evident from the following result, ascertained from returns furnished by seven of the manufacturing districts of England.
1801 1804 1807 1810
£5 18 3 55,965
Wheat per qr. Deaths.
3 0 1 44,794
3 13 3 48,108
5 6 2 54,875 Murders in the Southern States of North America are numerous. Amongst the late outrages, a Mr. Moore drew a pistol and fired at Mr. Prentice, the editor of the Louisville Journal, in consequence of some attack that had appeared in his paper. The shot was returned ; but neither fire, fortunately, took effect. This occurred amongst a crowd of people at Harrodsburg, in Kentucky.
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