16. Road from Cheltenham to Painswick. 17. Road from Hulme's Chapel to Chelford. 18. Road from Kirby Kendal to Kirby Ireleth. 19. Road from Cheadle to Quickshill Bank. 20. From Lightpill Gate, Rodboroug, to Birdlip. 21. Road between Plymouth and Exeter, through Ashburton. 43. Lighting, watching, and cleansing Huddersfield. 44. Roads from Milford, through Petworth. 45. Road from Pool, through Oswestry. 46. Road from Tenterden, through Woodchurch. 47. Military Roads in Perth. 50. New Bridge over the River 22. Road from Wansford to Stam- Earn. ford and Bourn. 23. Roads from Monk Bridge to New Malton and Scarborough. 24. Road from Weyhill to Lyde Way. 25. Roads fron Henshall's Smithy to Altringham. 26. Road from Greenhead, through Haltwhistle, Hexham, and Corbridge. 27. Road from Stonehaven to Cobleheugh. 28. Road from Stockport to Warrington. 29. Road from Whiteburn to Kelso. 30. Road from Gateshead to Ryton Lane Head. 31. Roads from Gosport to Bishop's Waltham. 32. Malmesbury Turnpike Roads. 33. Roads from Ludlow. 34. Road from Ludlow to Monk's Bridge. 35. Maintaining navigable the Ure. 36. Maintaining the Harbour of Goran Haven. 37. Corporation of the Trinity House of Leith. 38. Roads from Butt Lane to Henshall's Smithy. 39. Bridge within Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. 40. Navigation of the Aire and Calder. 41. Two new Churches in Newington. 42. Burying-Ground for Rotherhithe. 51. Bridge over the River Wen sum. 52. Ballast Office in the Port of Cork. 53. Fund for relief of Skippers and Keelmen upon the Tyne. 54. Branch Railway from Crabtree to Catdown. 55. Lighting Dublin with Gas. 56. Lighting with Gas Shrewsbury. 57. Lighting Bolton with Gas. 58. Chapel of Ease, Pendleton. 59. Uniting the Rectory and Vicarage of Saint Dunstan in the West. 60. For the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane. 61. For Paving, Lighting, &c. Bury Saint Edmund's. 62. For lighting, &c. Stockton. 63. For improving Whitgift and Snaith. 64. For the road from North Shields. 65. For the road from Selby to Leeds. 66. Road from Rochester to Maidstone. 67. Roads in Stirling, Dumbarton, Lanark, and Perth. 68. Road from Wakefield to Austerlands. 69. Roads from Devizes. 70. Roads from Hertford to Broadwater. 71. Road from Longhorsley Bar to Piercy's Cross. of the arch is 3 feet 11 inches. On this canal and its appendices, there will probably, before the works are completed, be expended nearly half a million sterling. There are at present 352 men, six horses, and ten vessels employed on the suspension bridge over the Menai. On the Anglesea side, the main pier rises 63 feet above the level of high water; and the piers are rapidly advancing. On the Caernarvon side, the main pier is 33 feet above high water; first pier from it, 45, second ditto, 57. A new iron bridge is about to be placed over the river Weaver, near Nantwich. It combines elegance and lightness, with strength and durability. One peculiar excellence is, that the 24 massive braces which are placed diagonally, between the perpendicular bolts and the upper and lower ribs, equalize the pressure, on whatever part it rests.-Architect, T. Harrison, Esq. March 20.-The first stone of the Carlisle Canal Basin was laid in the presence of the committee, and a considerable number of spectators. Mr William Halton mounted the stone, and, in a concise speech, expressed 89. Road from Dundalk to Bann- his hopes that the undertaking would bridge. CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDON. The stupendous drainage of the Eau Brink, extending over some hundreds of thousands of acres, is rapidly drawing towards its completion. The Eau Brink Cut, about two miles and three quarters in length, is nearly completed; as is the new bridge across it, which is to be a draw-bridge for the admission of ships to pass and repass through it to Saint Germain's. The new bridge is of timber, which is so combined as to produce strength and durability. Its length is about 820 feet; the versed sine or spring prove beneficial to the subscribers, and of advantage to the neighbouring districts. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. May 16.-Commenced the building of a stone bridge over the Alne, near Alnwick Abbey. The intention is to avoid a ford which is often dangerous in the winter. This useful work is undertaken at the expense of the Duke of Northumberland. CHESHIRE. The erection of a bridge across the Conway has been sanctioned by a grant of 40,000l. public money. The attainment of this object, with other projected improvements, will remove an obstacle which has hitherto operated against the Holyhead line of road through Chester. Plans are agreed upon for the erection of three new churches in Leeds; estimated expense of each 10,000%. In the intended erection of a new jail in Norwich, the Shire-House and inconvenient courts of justice, are to be removed from the present site into the gardens below the hill, near the eastern entrance. A subterraneous passage for conveying prisoners from their cells to trial, will be excavated. Estimated expenditure, 26,000l. periodial publications, a library, a room containing the museum belonging to the Philosophical Society, and a billiard room. The estimated expense was 3000l., and it does great credit to the accuracy of the architect, Mr Mortimer, of this town, that it has not exceeded that sum. The amount was raised in transferable shares of 251. each; the proprietor of one share has free admission for himself, and the liberty of introducing a friend. Those who possess more than one, receive 25s. per annum for each additional share, which is the sum fixed on as the annual subscription of persons who are not proprietors. The sum paid on the admission of each member, is 17. 11s. 6d. ; low as the charges appear, they have yet been found sufficient to enable the committee to furnish the rooms in a handsome manner, and to purchase a considerable number of books, which will soon become a respectable library. EDINBURGH. The celerity with which architectural works are undertaken and executed in this city is truly astonishing. But the most extraordinary instance of rapid building is that of the new Circus, which may be said to connect the village of Stock-Bridge with the New Town. In the space of little more than twelve months, the whole Circus, with the exception of one house, has been begun and completed, and a considerable part of it is already inhabited. In addition to the buildings, the pavement of the street around the Circus is nearly completed; and the ground in the centre enclosed with an elegant railing, and tastefully planted. The Melville Monument is becoming a prominent feature in the outline of our romantic city, and already prove that the situation is the best that could have been chosen, as in that part of the New Town, with the exception of St Andrew's spire, there is no architectural ornament higher than the houses. The College. It is very gratifying to observe the progress which has been made, in the course of the season, in building the College. The passage from the street to the interior of the quadrangle, upon the improved plan, has been completed, which, considering its stupendousness and magnificence, is itself a very considerable advance towards the completion of the building. The north side has been proceeded in with so much activity, that the masonwork may be expected to be soon finished. So much of its inner front as was previously built, has been pulled down and rebuilt, so as to accommodate it to the new plan, which provides the whole front with the noble ornament of Corinthian pillars. As the south side will exactly correspond with it, a perfect idea may now be formed of the appearance which this grand building will present when finally completed. This is an event to which the public have long looked forward with no little anxiety; and they must contemplate with much satisfaction the near prospect of its accomplishment. Some time ago, as must be known to many of our readers, a range of old houses that stood on the west side of the Horse Wynd, immediately behind the College, was cleared away, and an open space formed, which has been planted with trees, and considerably improved, on that side, the effect of the building. The Union Canal between Glasgow and Edinburgh was brought to a completion about the close of this year. Commencing at the west side of Edinburgh, it joins the great canal at Lock No. 16, near Falkirk. The length is 31 miles. Magnificent aqueduct bridges occur at Slateford and Muiravonside ; and before its junction with the great canal, it is carried through a tunnel half a mile in length. The estimate of the expense was up wards of 200,000l.; and this amount, we believe, was exceeded. The iron bar bridge lately erected over the Tweed, near Paxton Ford, six miles above Berwick, proves so advantageous to the country, that the trustees have voted 1000 guineas to the builder, Captain Brown, above his estimate. The captain has erected a suspension-pier, on a similar principle, west of Newhaven, near Edinburgh. This extends 700 feet into the sea, and will admit of steamvessels and other craft coming alongside at low water. It was proved, by the weight of twenty-one tons being placed between the different points of suspension. Although that was the extreme weight up to which Captain Brown, the contractor, was bound to prove it, such was the confidence of the contractor, as well as of the proprietors, in the strength and stability of the structure, that the passengers, by the various steam-vessels which frequent it, were allowed to pass without interruption, during the whole operation, so that at one time there was a weight equal to that of 500 persons on the arches at the same time. A new pharos or light-house in the Shetland Isles was first set up January 15th last, and is intended to burn constantly from the close of day till next morning. This light-house is at Sumburghhead, one extremity of the Isle of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands, in 59° 52′ north latitude, and 1° 28′ west longitude. It is about twenty miles SW. from Hangcliff-Head, on the Isle of Noss. The light will be visible to all ships sailing in the southern parts of the Shetland Islands, between Foula Island and Nosshead. The flame will be fixed, but accompanied with reflector lamps, the elevation 300 feet above the mean level of the sea. At the distance of six or seven leagues, it will appear like a star of the first magnitude. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. RELIGIOUS CHARITIES.-Receipts of the principal religious charities in London for the year ending LadyDay, 1821: British and Foreign Bible Society £89,154 Church Missionary Society author of "Christian Essays," "Christian Missions," and "the St David's Prize Essay, for the Year 1811, on the Clerical Character," their premium of fifty pounds for the best Essay on "The Necessity of a Church Establishment in a Christian Country, for 53,100 the Preservation of Christianity among 31,200 26,174 the People of all Ranks and Denomina22,500 tions; and the Means of Exciting and 13,200 Maintaining among its members a Spi13,000 rit of Devotion, together with Zeal for the Honour, Stability and Influence of the Established Church."7,000 [This Essay is preparing for the 5,000 Press. 10,789 8,000 7,561 2,348 1,903 £203,809 We have to announce to our clerical friends the following premiums, offered by the Church Union Society, in the Diocese of St David's, 1821-1. A premium of 501. (by benefaction) for the best Essay on the Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce; and on the Criminal Character and Punishment of Adultery by the ancient laws of England and other countries."-2. A premium of 251. for the best Essay on the Influence of a Moral Life on our Judgment in matters of Faith."-If any man will DO his will, he shall know of the DOCTRINE, whether it be of God. John, vii. 17.— The Essays are to be sent directed to the Rev. W. Morgan, Vicarage, Abergwilly, near Caermarthen, on or before the last day of July, 1821, with the names of the writers in a sealed paper, inscribed with the motto of the Essay. The Society have adjudged to the Rev. S. C. Wilks, A.M., of Oxford, VOL. XIV. PART II. METHODISTS.-The next Conference of Wesleyan Methodists is to be held in London, on the last Wednesday in July, 1822. That in Ireland on the first Friday in the same month. The following is the statement of the numbers this year in the Society: |