... A great improvement has just been effected in the Jacquard loom, by which all the weights are dispensed with, and steam- power is used to work the machinery. By this new machine, silks of any pattern, of superior texture to the French, and of the most even fabric, can be made by children or women. Springs are used to regulate the yard-beam without reference to its diameter, and by a simple and ...

... CON FIRMATION OF THE Bisnor or HKREportD.—Thiscetc mony was performed on Saturday moi ning in Bow church, Lon- don. Shortly after eleven Dr. Musgrave, Dr. Daubeny, the surrogate of the vicar general, Drs. Robertson and Curteir, JMr. Dyke, the registrar, dcc. entered the church, and the Litany having been read by the Rev. Trollope, proceeded to con- firm the election of Dr. Musgrave as the ...

... COLEPOBP, FoREsr OF DEAN, SEPT. 21.—The proceedings in this town, on the occasion of the opening of the organ pur- chased by subscription for the church, terminated in the most satisfactory manner to all parties interested. Divine service was celebrated, both morning and evening, before very numer- ous congregations and the music and singings, U.ider the di- rection of Mr. Wall, who was ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. The Paris Journals received to-day bring no later news from Spain than is already known. Bombay papers to the 15th of June have been received. We regret to state that a terrible fever was raging, and destroying thousands of people in the Paneput and Rhotuk districts. It was reported that the Supreme Government intended doing away with the transit duties. Consols for ...

... A case of considerable importance, involving the rela- tions of master and apprentice, came on for adjudication before the Magistrates this week. John Frost and Joseph Latch, Esqrs., presided upon the occasion. On the 9th instant, it appeared that the apprentices in the yard of Mr. Perkins, ship- builder, of this town, lefused to come to work, in consequence of their master declining to give ...

... PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com*' puted from the returns made in the week ending Oct. 17, 1&37>|1 is 35s 8d per cwt., exdusive of the duties of Customs. Newport, Saturday, October 28, 1837 Printed and Published by the Proprietor, EDWARP Newport, Saturday, October 28, 1837 Printed and Published by the Proprietor, EDWARP DOW1.ING, residing in Commercial-street, ...

... DEATH OF MR. WESLEY.—The demise of this accomplished scholar and extraordinary musical genius took place on Wed- nesday the 11th inst., aged 72 years. As a musician his cele- brity is greater on the Continent than in his own country his compositions are grand and masterly his melodies sweet, va- ried, and novel harmonies bold, imposing, unexpected, and sublime. Mr. Wesley was nephew of the ...

... It is in contemplation to establish a great monthly mSTWt a* Chipping Sodbury. A Commissioner from London has been sitting for the last week at the King's Head, in this city, examining witnesses in the affair of the late James Wood. The legatees named in the codicil are very sanguine as to their success in this matter, and the corporation have granted jE400 to prosecute the inquiry. The ...

... The Monmouthshire Beacon has thought proper to sig- nalise its second number by Tin attack upon us, the cause or gravamen of which we scarcely know, and which we think its own readers will be slow to comprehend. How we had invited remark in the style in which we have been assailed, it is for our contemporary alone to de- termine. We have been much surprised at it—the more especially as, from ...

... LIVERPOOL.—LAUNCH OF AN IRON VESSEL.— On Saturday se'nnight, the Rainbow, an iron steam vessel, built for the Ge- neral Steam Navigation Company, was launched from Mr. J. Laird's yard, Birkenhead. She is, with two or three excep- tions, the longest sieam vessel built or building in this country, her dimensions being—Length over all, 213 feet; beam, within paddle-boxes, 25 feet extreme width, ...

... The New YorV pa^et' whicli !fft !hat ° the »U., has brought the mas.a^ of American Pies.dent nn .1, L& c°. -sion of the twenly-hfih on the assembling of the first se»- ] ...

... Monday, Oct. 9.—(By the carcass, per quantities of Bibs., being one half the Imperial stone and lib. additional.)- Beef, 2s 8d to 3s 8d Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d Veal, 3s 6d to 4s lOd Pork, 3s 8d to 5s Od. ...