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Petition of William Whitney and others, praying that some measures
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
may be adopted to secure the lives and property of the petitioners, from the danger arising from a certain wooden building situated in Sister- street, occupied by Benj. Morgan as a carpenter's shop, which they state is used in a very dangerous and careless manner and is covered and surround- ed, both inside and out, with light and combustible materials, such as loose shavings, seasoned stuff, &c. thereby endangering the houses of the petition- ers in Atkinson, Federal, William, Berry, and Sister streets. Read and committed to the Mayor, Aldermen Welsh and Oliver, with such as the Common Council may join, to consid- er and report. Concurred, and the Common Council joined on its part Messrs. Brooks, Stephens, Boies, and Rice.
Petition of P. T. Jackson, Amos Lawrence, and Gerry Fairbanks, a committee of an Association for the public exhibition and sales of Domes- tic Manufactures, praying that the room over the New Market-house may be appropriated for that purpose .-- Committed to the Mayor, Aldermen Welsh, Oliver, Loring, and Robbins. -Concurred in Common Council- joined on its part Messrs. Dorr, Bar- nard, Aspinwall, Sprague, Brooks, Baldwin, and Hallet.
Joshua Glidden, Wm. C. Jenkins, Azel Bowditch, and Geo. O. Ingersoll licensed as victuallers.
Thursday, Jan. 12. Memorial of Sam'l H. Hewes, Superintendent of burial grounds, praying that an addi- tional car may be provided. Commit- ted to Aldermen Bellows and Carney to consider and report.
William Smith was appointed Mes- senger and Keeper of the City Court- house-compensation $30 per month.
Petition of the President and Direc- tors of the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, relative to the rights of the City and said Corporation, and praying that Commissioners may be appointed to settle their respective rights in the receiving basin, so called, or flats in the back bay. Committed to Aldermen Carney, Bellows, Welsh,
Oliver, Jackson, and Robbins .- Con- curred, and the Common Council join- ed Messrs. Peabody, Tracey, J. Par- ker, Lodge, Morey, Hatch, & Eveleth.
Petition of Timothy Fuller, to pur- chase a lot of land purchased by the city for a School-house lot, in rear and adjoining the land of Eben'r Parker, and now improved. Concurred.
Application of Mrs. Plympton for a license for herself, son and daughter to give a Concert at the lower hall of the Columbian Museum on Monday next, and to repeat the same three or four times. Read and granted.
Ordered, that Aldermen Carney, Marshall, and Jackson, be a commit- tee to ascertain the best terms and con- tract for a number of fire buckets not exceeding 200 pair, to be made and delivered to the satisfaction of said committee ..
Ordered, that Park-street Church Clock be under the inspection of the Mayor-Hollis-street Church, Alder- man Carney-Old South, Alderman Robbins-New Brick, Alderman Oli- ver -- State-street, Alderman Marshall.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Monday, Jan. 16 .- A communica- tion from a Committee of the town of Brunswick, Me. on the subject of the losses by fire in that town, and re- questing assistance, came down from the Board of Aldermen. Read and committed to Messrs. Morey, Torrey, and Howe.
The Committee of Finance report- ed the following Order which was pass- ed and sent up for concurrence :-
Ordered, That the sum of $5000 be added to the appropriation to de- fray the expenses of the "Fire De- partment including new Engines, Hose, Compensation, &c." and that the same amount be withdrawn from the appropriation for the payment of " Instalments of the City and County Debt."-Concurred in board of Al- dermen.
Petitions .- Of Cyrus Balkcom to purchase land on the Neck, was re- ferred to Committee on Neck Lands, in concurrence,-of Timothy Fuller,
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to purchase a lot of land bought by the City for a School House last year, was committed to a special Com- mittee.
The Mayor, of the joint committee to whom was referred the petition of P. T. Jackson, Esq. and others, made a report recommending the adoption of the following resolve :--
Resolved, That the association pro- posed to be formed in this Common- wealth for the purpose of encouraging the public exhibition and sale of pro- ducts of domestic industry shall, when- ever the same shall be legally organ- ized, have for the purposes of such ex- hibition and sale the use of so much of the upper story of the new Market House, now building near Faneuil Hall, as they may require for the pre- sent City year, not exceeding 20 days in the Spring and 20 days in the Au- tumn, the said Association giving no- tice to the Mayor and Aldermen, on or before the first day of April next, of the portion of said upper story they may find it necessary to occupy, and the particular periods of time at which they may determine to make use of it, for the purposes above expressed .-- Concurred in board of Aldermen.
Ald. Welsh, of joint Committee on the subject of the expediency of ap- plying to the Legislature for authority to assess taxes earlier, reported that it is not expedient to make the appli- cation ; and that in the opinion of the Committee, to enable the City Gov- ernment to realize the taxes more sea- sonably, the number of Assessors should be increased to Five. Read and accepted.
An ordinance to provide for the management and disposition of the fund, appropriated to the Fire Depart- ment, passed.
Ordered, That Messrs. Barry, Cur- tis, Torrey, Lodge, Grosvenor, Brew- er and Thiyer, with such as the May- or and Aldermen may join, be a com- mittee to consider the expediency of selling a part of the County Lands between Court-Street and the County Court House, and that for the better understanding of the subject they
cause a survey and plan of the whole to be made, designating such portion as may be sold, and what in their opinion it will be proper to reserve for the use of the County or City .- Also, to consider the expediency of purchas- ing land contiguous to the Court House (or to lands owned by the County) and if any such purchase shall be by them thought advisable, to report to the City Council a plan of the same and the terms on which it can be had -- and that the Reports of the Commit- tee on County Lands, and on the ex- pediency of providing buildings for U. S. and other Courts, be referred to the same Committee to consider and report .- Joined on the part of the board of Aldermen, Messrs. Bellows, Oliver, Loring and Robbins.
Messrs. Gray, Peabody, Bassett, Stevens, Farnsworth, Hastings, and Wiley [to be joined] were appointed a Committee to consider the powers of the Mayor and other officers of the City in relation to the preservation of the peace, with liberty to report by ordinance or otherwise.
Messrs. Bassett, Torrey, Barnard, Thayer, and James [to be joined] were appointed a Committee to take into consideration and report upon the sev- eral petitions of Jer. Evarts, Wm. Simmons, Henry Hill, Eben'r. T. An- drews, and Sam'l. Whitney, praying remuneration for damages sustained by them in consequence of digging down Pinkney-street.
Messrs. Morey, Howe, Wiley, and S. Thaxter were appointed a commit- tee on the subject of Ancient Records
Petitions-Of O. Greenleaf; and Mr. Whittemore and others, were committed.
Messrs. Stevens, Boies, and Gros- venor, were appointed a Committee on the subject of Juvenile offenders.
Impeachment .- In the Senate, on Tuesday,sitting as aCourt of Impeach- ment, Mr. Blagge came in, and fifteen additional articles were read, in sub- stance nearly the same as the others. It was ordered that the trial procced h on Tuesday the 31st inst.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.
A London Evening Courier, of Dec 6th. says, the scarcity of mon- ey in the city still continues, and ren- ders difficult the negotiation of the best commercial bills.
It is reported that the French Gov- ernment have acknowledged the In- dependence of the Republic of Co- lumbia.
The Gibraltar Chronicle states that the fever on the opposite coast had arrived to such a dreadful height, that the inhabitants were falling dead in the street. A subscription had been opened at Gibraltar for the sufferers at 'Tangier.
The British duty on hops has fallen miserably short this year. It some- times exceeds £200,000, and is often from £130,000 to $150,000 .- This year it is very little more than £24,000.
A coach has been established on the Stockton and Darlington railway, which carries passengers at one penny a mile.
The British 50 gun ship Romney, arrived in Plymouth in 22 days from Quebec, and only 14 from land to land, with 325 officers and men of the 37th regiment of foot.
Slaves .- A requisition, signed by nearly 100 members of the common council of London, had been present- ed to the Lord Mayor, desiring that he would call a special Court to consider the propriety of petitioning parlia- ment for the immediate migitation of slavery throughout the British Colo- nies, and for its extinction at the ear- liest safe and practicable period.
A report containing an account of the money expended for the mainten- ance and relief of the poor in England and Wales, for the three years end- ing March 25, 1824, has been print- ed by order of the House of Com- mons. The total expenditure in each year was as follows, viz : ending March 25, 1822, £6,358,702-1823, £5,772,958-1824, £5,736,898.
Lord Strangford, the new British ambassador to Russia,arrived at Cron- stadt in the ship Glasgow, Nov. 5, and proceeded to Petersburgh on the 7th.
In a suit of Crim. Con. between Lieut. Thorndyke and Capt. Hervey, a verdict was rendered by the jury, in favour of the former, for four thou- sand pounds.
A Living Tarantula .- A few days ago we were favoured with the sight of a living Tarantula spider, which is in the possession of a lady in Liver- pool. It is very inanimate in the day time, but grows much more alert at night. It is considered a very great rarity .- Liv. Mer.
The clergy and Merchants of Ca- diz are endeavouring to have it declar- ed a Free Port .- The Priests own much of the real estate.
Paris, Dec. 1 .- Accounts dated Nov. 20, received from Madrid, state that the Spanish clergy have offered the King a free gift of 25,000,000 of reals for the service of the state. The Duke de l'Infantado has offered on his part 4,000,000 reals. These sums have been paid into the treasury, and t is hoped that this example will be imitated, and that all good Spaniards will be eager to contribute to the re- lief of their country.
The Greek Government has order- ed a conscription of one man out of every hundred, between 18 and 40 years of age throughout Greece.
American Stocks, Dec 3 .- 4 1-2 per cent of 1834, 91 ; 5 per cents, of 1820,99 1-2; do. 21, 100 ; 6 per cents, of 1813, 88. U. S. Bank Shares £22 10 to £23.
French Stocks, Dec. 3 .- Five per cents opened at 96f. closed at 95f. 50c. Three per cents opened at 63f. 50c. closed at 63 90. Private letters state that after Change they were higher.
TEX REBELS.
THE REBELS, OR BOSTON BEFORE THE REVOLUTION .-- By the author of Hobomok.
Here the free spirit of Mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off': and who shall place, A limit to the quarter's unchained strength, Or cut his swiftness in the forward race .- Bryant.
Just published and for sale by CUMMINGS, HILLIARD & Co.
BOSTON : Printed by Munroe & Francis.
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LONDON.
THE immediate site of this vast me- tropolis is about sixty miles west from the sea on the banks of the Thames ; occupying a gentle slope on the north side of that celebrated river ; and an almost uniform flat surface on its southern side. The soil of this dis- trict is gravel and clay, with a mix- ture of loam and sand; and to the abundance of clay, and the facility it affords of making bricks, a part of the rapid increase of building may proba- bly be attributed.
The mean breadth of the Thames at London is about a quarter of a mile ; and its usual depth about twelve feet. On the Middlesex shore, the buildings of the metropolis, following the natu- ral bend of the river, form a sort of ampitheatre from east to west, in con- sequence of the gentle rise of the ground from the water side. The Surrey shore having been a marsh, is of course flat, but is now covered with a line of buildings, which, from Vaux- hall to Deptford, presents an extent of seven miles ; the whole forming an assemblage of human habitations, sec- ond to none but that which distin- guished ancient Rome in its prosperi- ity ; but at this time certainly the largest in the world.
" It is astonishing to view the man- ner in which the dense part of London is built-the thousand narrow courts and streets which look precisely like long alleys, with houses four stories high on each side. These buildings contain numerous families ; thousands and thousands live next door to each other, in the same floor, that do not know each other ; and hundreds of families pass through the same front shops, go out of the same doors, that have lived for years in this way, and have never exchanged a word with each other, and who do not know their names or business.
London, considered as the capital of the British empire, includes not on- ly the city and its liberties, but West- minster, Southwark, and many villa- ges, both in Middlesex and Surrey. 6*
Thus regarded, its extent from W. to E., or from Knightsbridge to Poplar, is about seven miles and a half. Its breadth, from N. to S., or from New- ington Butts to Islington, is nearly five miles. The circumference of the whole, allowing for various ine- qualities in the extension of streets, &c., at the extremities, cannot be less than thirty miles. Hence it may be fairly estimated, that the buildings of this metropolis cover, at least, eighteen square miles. Out of these, must be deducted the space occupied by the river Thames, for a length of seven miles, by a breadth of about a quarter of a mile.
Independently of various local and civil divisions, London may be said to consist of five distinguishing parts, or popular divisions :-- the west end of the town, the city, the east end of the town, Westminster, and the borough.
The " west end of the town " con- sists of various handsome squares and streets, occupied by the town-houses of the nobility and gentry, and the most fashionable shops.
The " city " includes the central and most ancient division of the metropo- lis. This is the emporium of com- merce and business of every descrip- tion, and is occupied by shops, ware- houses, public offices, and houses of tradesmen, and others connected with business.
The "east end of the town," and its inhabitants, are devoted to com- merce, to ship-building, and to every collateral branch connected with merchandise.
" Southwark," and the whole of the southern bank of the Thames, from Deptford to Lambeth, bears some re- semblance to the "east end " of the town, being occupied by persons en- gaged in commercial and maritime concerns. But this part of London has one feature which distinguishes it from any other ; it abounds with nu- merous and various manufactories, iron-foundries, glass-houses, soap-boil- ing and dye-houses, shot and hat man- ufactories, &c., and many other simi- lar establishments.
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" Westminster " contains the houses of the British legislature, the courts of justice and many offices connected with Government.
At the present time, London is computed to contain 70 squares, and 8,000 streets, lanes, rows, places, courts, &c. ; the houses in which are said to amount to no less than 160,000. There are two principal ranges of streets, forming a communication from one end of the town to the other. The most southern of these, for the greater part of the way, is within a quarter of a mile of the Thames.
The different Parks are delightful places to walk in, out of the dust and noise of London, and either of them are large enough to accommodate all the inhabitants of the metropolis. They are well shaded with large trees, and have fine walks. There are a great number of buildings going up in the vicinity of these Parks, which are truly elegant, and ten times as hand- some as the Palaces of the Royal fam- ily. The houses are all built alike in many places, forming immense circles, similar to Market St. in Boston, and sometimes in squares, with parks in the centre, like St. John's square in New York. These houses look like one building, I mean as though the whole was for the residence of one great family, having a beautiful terrace all round, with gardens in front.
BOSTON : SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1826.
NORTH-END.
STRANGERS are continually enquir- ing why the inhabitants of the North part of the City, are so little disposed to change the aspect of that section of the town,-and why there is not more ambition exhibited in relation to the width of the streets and the architec- ture of the buildings ?
The people in wards No. 1, 2, and 3, are consistent beings, who have no wish to destroy these monuments of antiquity which have been transmitted to them through a long line of illustri- ous ancestors. They are particularly
careful to preserve their ancient dwel lings with all the moss-grown beauties which once delighted the fancy of a race of men who could bear the bur den of their country's wrongs, and boldly bid defiance to the strongest nation in Europe, when their rights and privileges were in danger.
So long as the mass of wooden buildings remains, it is impossible to change the general appearance of the streets, which are now both crooked, narrow, and, on the eastern water edge, uneven and filthy a greater part of the year. It is said there are many aged people at the North End, who would not live in a modern tenement !
Were those improvements underta- ken at almost any section, which char- acterize the South-End, there can be no doubt it would be a delightful resi- dence.
Most of the yards are large, the sheds unnecessarily long, and . the houses are of that peculiar figure, or- dinarily, that a third more land is oc- cupied than is necessary, while they are the most inconvenient shelter which a family can inhabit.
Why the principal streets of business have been so long neglected, is really mysterious, as any alterations which would have a tendency to make them more convenient and cleanly, would also enhance the value of property. From Union-st. to the old ferry, the border streets following the water, all the way, is the most disagreeable assemblage of houses and shops which ever constituted a city. The eye fixes upon no object, in travelling this rout, which does not tell a tale about the century past. Even the very signs are a curiosity : they insensibly car- ry the mind, in retrospection, to that age of easy simplicity, when our fore- fathers were learned without learning, and wise without wisdom. Room in the house was the order of the day with their builders, while room out' door now engages the attention of the whole corporation. There are many sorts of enterprise, but that kind which is defined constructiveness, by the phrenologists, has never been devel-
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oped in the descendants of the first settlers at the North End.
Savings Bank .- This institution, which is professedly the Bank of the poor, should undergo some new ar- rangements immediately, for the ac- commodation of those decrepid beings who are its particular patrons. The season is inclement, and we have no- ticed with sorrow, crowds of people wedged together on the stair case, who, after waiting in the cold three hours, were obliged to go away with- out being served. There should eith- er be two discount days in a week till about March, or one whole day devot- ed to the business. This is the time when the poor need their little savings, and ifthey are deprived of ever getting a peep within the office, they had better deposit their hard earnings in some more accommodating place of safety.
The arch recently discovered in Chamber St. was ten feet below the level of the street. Our oldest inhab- itants say the street is now fifteen feet lower than the original surface of the ground, which was carted away to make the almshouse lot in Leverett St. Its dimensions were, 8 feet in length, 4 in width, and 7 in depth. It was constructed of two layers of brick, and completely closed, water tight.
A light kind of loam, fragments of sheep bones, oyster shells and a few broken wine bottles with the corks in, was all that this curiously constructed vault is said to have contained. Not a trace, either by tradition or the recollection of the most aged people in the vicinity, gives the least clue to the name of the person by whom it was made, and we are therefore led to the conclusion that the object was for securing a treasure. Some gentlemen are of an opinion that the oyster shells are a little peculiar, both in size and form, and differ a little from those in the shops.
Similar vaults have been found on the islands in the harbour, and in sev- eral places in the city.
MANUFACTURE OF GLASS WARE.
A friend, says the Boston Statesman. has furnished us with the following statement of the amount in value of the Glass Ware, Flint and Window, manufactured weekly and yearly by the manufactories specified. The glass manufactured in this state main- tains, we believe, as good a character as most kinds of the imported ; and is generally in use, throughout the states. The manufactories named are the largest in this part of the country at least, if not larger than most others in the United States.
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N. Eng. S Flint glass $2500
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There are in this state several oth- er glass manufactories of less extent than the above. Theseare all of them within about a mile of State street. Of those in the interior we have but little information.
SUMMARY.
Early next week, a Committee from the Directors of the Mercantile Libra- ry, will attend, at their room No. 1, Merchant's Hall, to receive donations to that institution. It is hoped the Mercantile community feel a lively interest in its welfare, and will extend their further patronage. [See p. 65.]
The address lately pronounced be- fore the Franklin Typographical So- ciety, in this city, by Mr. Jefferson Clark, has been published, and is from the press of Messrs. Dutton and Went- worth, Exchange Street.
The number of patients at the Bos- ton Eye Infirmary, from Oct. 1, 1824, to Dec. 1825, was 859. It is under the control of Drs. Reynolds & Jef- fries, and located on Pemberton's Hill, in Scollay's Buildings.
A writer in the Palladium of Tues- day, regrets that the bills of mortality have not the names of diseases in En- glish, instead of Latin. The fact is,
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