land have been rescued from the sea; land, we should conceive, capable of being rendered equally productive with our sea-land, near this city. In a public view this embankment will prove of incalculable advantage: and we sincerely hope, that it will prove equally so in remunerating the laudable exertions and perseverance of its worthy projector and proprietor. After the completion of the work was known, on Mr. Madocks's approach, the populace took his horses from his carriage, drew him across the embankment, and discovered the most ardent transports of gratitude and pleasure.

Four acres and a half of land, in the neighbourhood of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, not possessing the advantage of a waterfall, sold, a few months since, at the enormous price of three hundred pounds per acre.

Skiddaw, in Wales, is already under cultivation; and its adjunct, Latterig, is undergoing the operation of paring and burning. A road is also forming from its base to its summit. (See Gen. Chron. vol. i, p. 552.

A school on the plan of Dr. Bell, has lately been established in Chester, by Earl Grosvenor, which already accommodates 300 boys.

The committee to whom the petition of several brewers of the cities of Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, was referred, have made their report, in which they state the decrease of malt liquor since 1810 at 66,083 barrels of 40 gallons each, and attribute it to the excessive use and cheapness of spirituous liquors.

It appears from an account laid before the House of Commons, that the annual average saving, arising from a diminution of the number of labourers employed at Deptford since the abolition of the old system in 1808, and the adoption of the new system, in 1809, suggested by the commissioners of naval revision, amounts to 5,0231. 13s. 5d.

On Tuesday last the Conference of the people called Methodists, closed its sittings at Sheffield. There is an increase of 7445 members, and the preachers and chapels have increased in proportion. Their missions in Ireland were spoken of in a very favourable manner; Mr. Charles Atmore was chosen president, and the Rev. Dr. Coke, Secretary. The number of preachers who attended was not less than 250. Twenty-six preachers, having finished their probation of four years, were publicly received into full connexion; and the demand for preachers from different parts of the United Kingdom induced the conference to admit 60 young men for trial as candidates for the ministry; a clear proof of the growing strength of this community.

The society of Methodists have purchased the superb mansion and grounds of Apperley-bridge in the West-riding of Yorkshire, late the residence of Thomas Clapham, Esq. for the purpose of a public school; this institution is to be founded on the model of the school at

Kingswood,

Kingswood, in the neighbourhood of Bristol, and is to be on a scale sufficiently large to accommodate 400 boys, principally the sons of the ministers of that community.

During the last winter, a subscription was opened at Hamilton, in Scotland, for the relief of the industrious inhabitants, who, in common with those of all the other manufacturing towns in the west of Scotland, have been thrown out of employment, in consequence of the staguation of trade. A very large sum was forthwith subscribed; but when an attempt was made to distribute it, the people for whose use it had been so generously provided, refused to accept of it as alms, but said they would be happy to earn it by their labour. The subscribers have accordingly agreed to expend the money in making a new foot-path between Hamilton and Bothwell bridge, at which all the labouring inhabitants of the parish will be invited to work, at the usual wages.

The commission of suicide by youthful females has of late become very frequent in particular parts of Lincolnshire; nor have the verdicts of the coroner's inquest, directing an ignominious interment in the public road, been sufficient to deter others from the practice. Another instance of this crime occurred last week at Market-Deeping. Miss Jane Smith, aged 19, under the impulse of a disappointment of a tender nature, after failing in an attempt to drown herself, cut her throat in an outhouse, and died a few hours after. The jury returned a verdict of lunacy, but the clergyman refused to permit the burial until he received a note from the coroner on the subject.

In another example, Elizabeth James, of Peterborough, poisoned herself, and her body was buried in the road leading to Spalding. The relations of the unhappy young woman have recently placed a stone near where her remains are interred, bearing the following inscription:

'Near this spot were deposited, on the 24th of May, 1811, the sad remains of Elizabeth James; an awful memento against the horrid crime of suicide.-Passenger! take warning: you see here a fatal instance of human weakness, and the dreadful consequence of misplaced affection.'

A curious circumstance lately occurred at Winchester, on a trial respecting the right of property in a sloop. A difference of opinion existed among the jurymen, and after being locked up from three in the afternoon to nine o' clock at night, they were still far from coming ⚫ to a decision. It now grew dark, and not being allowed candles or refreshment, and none of them having taken any since the morning, they began to get dissatisfied and uneasy. A few minutes before nine it was discovered that one of them had made his escape out at a back window from the water-closet; the remaining eleven then grew more and more dissatisfied, and importuned to be discharged, which they were, without coming to any decision whatever. The individual who made his escape at the window is a respectable tradesman near

Winchester,

Winchester. It is understood he will be heavily fined for his intrepidity. He, by some means or other, as appeared afterwards, procured a person in the yard to hoist a ladder to the window, and by this means decamped, leaving his disconsolate fellow-sufferers to settle the verdict at their leisure.

POPULATION OF THE METROPOLIS.

The census for the City being now completed and arranged, it is here given, together with a general view of the returns for Westminster, and the other districts. The returns of the districts for the year 1801, are added, and the increase in the population of what may be called the metropolis; and the relative numbers of males and females are also given. The disproportion of females to males which is so observable in this statement, prevails equally throughout the kingdom; though from the registry of births within the bills of mortality, it is calculated, that to 105 males, there are less than 100 females born. The parishes conspicuous for an accession of inhabitants are also pointed out. Dr. Brakenbridge in 1754, calculated the population of London at 751,812, which was probably an over-estimate at that time. For details of the population of Westminster, &c. of which the totals here follow, see p. 99.

Total population of London, Westminster, and the above districts, by the present census:

Males, 483,781-Females, 615,323: Total, 1,099,104

The statement for the city of London includes the whole of the 105 parishes within the boundaries. The population of this part of the metropolis has not increased within the last ten years.

In the estimate for the Surry-district, twelve parishes are included, viz. Christchurch, Lambeth, Newington, Camberwell, Putney, Clap ham, Wandsworth, Rotherhithe, Streatham, Battersea, Bermondsey, and Richmond.

The Middlesex parishes are Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Tottenham, Enfield, Harrow, Twickenham, Staines, and Uxbridge. To the Middlesex and Surry districts, a Kent district ought to be added. Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich, belong at least as much to the metropolis, as do Streatham, Richmond, Staines, and Uxbridge.

The influx of inhabitants since 1801 is very conspicuous in the under named parishes:

St. Giles and St. Andrew's, Holborn

St. Marylebone

St. George's and Pancras

Hackney and Bethnal-green
Clerkenwell and Islington
Lambeth and Newington
Kensington and Chelsea

Increase.

The following is said to be a list of the persons, vehicles, and single horses, that passed over the following bridges, the former taken the 16th, the latter the 22nd of last October:

Statement of the quantity of Strong-beer brewed by the twelve prin

cipal

cipal houses in London, between the 5th July, 1810, and the 5th July,

The following is the amount of the Duty received on Fire insurances,

in the quarter from Christmas 1810 to Lady-day 1811:

New projects for the enlargement of the metropolis, of the most magnificent kind, are entertained.

1. A plan is drawn for covering two thousand acres with streets and squares, between the New-road and Primrose-hill, on Marylebone-park, and the estates of the Duke of Portland, Earl Camden, Lord Southampton, Mr. Portman, Mr. Eyre, &c. There will be twenty thousand houses in this one undertaking.

2. In the same way, all the fields about Kentish Town and Holloway are to be covered with buildings.

3. Lord Kensington has let an immense extent of ground, to the left of the road opposite to Holland House, for the same purpose; and Earl Grosvenor's lands are all to be built on.

4. A new canal, to be called the Regent's Caual, is to be cut from the Grand Junction at Paddington, to go by the north of Pancras church, under the hill at Islington, and the New River by a tunnel, the north of Hoxton to Mile End, and from thence to the Thames at the Bight near the West India Docks.

5. The projected improvements on the river Thames are on a scale of magnitude and expense that seem to defy calculation. It is intended not only to divert the course of the river from Gallient Reach to Blackwall and across the Isle of Dogs, but also to excavate a new bed, through which the tide will flow from near the King's dock, at Deptford, to near the Nine Elms, at Battersea, damming up all the intervening space of the present river, and converting it into a basin.

These are a few of the projects, in addition to those which have been advertised; but of which we have seen the drafts and proposals for these undertakings are shown.

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