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On the 7th of November, 1824, the bells of Ross, in Herefordshire, were rung muffled, in memory of John Eyrle, Esq., immortalised for his kindness, by Pope, on the centenary day of his death; we may say of him as was said of Sutton, founder of the Charter-house school, in London; "He was gentle by birth, high by humility, and, which is greatest to his honour, rich by charitable bounty," which flowed in "a gentle stream, as from a full heart."

The following are the weights of the celebrated Bow-bells, in the city of London: treble, 987 lbs. ; 2d, 1064 lbs. ; 3d, 1152 lbs. ; 4th, 1351 lbs.; 5th, 1592 lbs. ; 6th, 1915 lbs. ; 7th, 2322 lbs. ; 8th, 2769 lbs. ; 9th, 3870 lbs.; the tenor, 5938 lbs.; the clappers, about 400 lbs. ; gross weight, 23,360 lbs.

Peals of bells are now often hung in cast-iron frames, being stronger and cheaper than oak, take up less room, are more durable, and are said to improve the sound.

No. 4.-Text, 324. Prices of articles used by the Navy, and pay of Workmen. About twenty years past, I had an opportunity of overlooking some of the old books connected with the Navy office in Somerset-house, London, from which I made the following extracts: the dates begin 1693.

In the year 1718 there were only nine flag officers in the navy.

In 1737, the expenses for the year of Greenwich Hospital, in which there were 900 men, was £10,000.

In 1693, bread, 10s. per cwt.; cheese, 2d. per lb. ; butter, 4d. and 4d. 1-4; oatmeal, 5s. per bushel; Barbadoes sugar, 34s. per cwt.; beer, 50s. per tun; beef, 18s. 6d. to 22s. per cwt. (112lbs. ;) suet, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per stone of 14lbs. ; peas, 4s. 6d. per bushel; flour, 16s. per cwt.; salt, 80s. per whey; wheat, 3s. 6d. per bushel; coals, 26s. per chaldron; hops, 43s. per cwt.; malt, 3s. 6d. per bushel; good rice, 20s. per cwt.; damaged do., 16s.; lizard fish, 6d. each.

In 1728, turpentine, 40s. 3d. per barrel; 49 tuns sea beer, 50s. per tun; old junk, from £5 to £6 per tun; 5175 furze bavins, at 5s. 9d. per 1000; 6000 brushwood bavins, at 14s., and 9900 at 15s. per 1000; these are faggots of wood, for burning, heating ovens, and other domestic purposes: "The mantling brambles hide the hearth, Centre of hospitable mirth,"-SCOTT.

Prices paid for day-work in Woolwich-yard, 1717; bricklayers, 1s. 10d.; braziers, 2s. 6d. ; plumbers, 2s. 6d. ; wheelwrights, 2s.; house-carpenters, 2s.; boys, 6d. to 8d.; caulkers, Is. 8d. to 1s. 10d.; shipwrights, 1s. 2d. to 2s.; sailmakers, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 10d.; joiners, 1s. to 2s.; riggers, 1s. 6d. ; spinners, 1s. 8d.; hatchellers, 1s. 5d.; labourers Is. to 1s. 2d.; watchmen, 1s. per night; watermen, 2s. ; pitch-heaters, 1s. 3d.; block-makers, 2s. 1d.; locksmiths, 2s. 6d. ; sawyers, 3s. per 100 feet of oak, elm, and fir; scavil men, Is. 3d.; teams of four horses, 6s.

Prices paid 1728: for black oakum, 12s. per cwt.; white do., 16s.; salad oil, 4s. 6d. per gallon; train-oil, £12 per tun; pitch, 12s. 6d. per barrel; resin, 13s. 6d. per cwt.; sand, 2s. per bushel; brown paper, 6s. per ream; tallow, 39s. per cwt.; tar, 170s. per last; tarras, 2s. 9d. per bushel; thrums, 7d. 3-4 per lb. ; pan-tiles, 85s. per 1000; plain ridge do., 208s. ; turpentine, 40s. 3d. per brl.; runlets for oil, 2 and 3 galls., 1s. 3d.; 4, 5, and 6 galls., 1s. 6d. ; 10 and 12 galls, 2s. each; bees' wax, ls. 5d. 1-2 per lb. ; candles, 5s. 6d. per doz lbs. ; charcoal, 6d. 1-4 per bushel; culm, 10s. 6d. per qr.; brass, 11d. per lb.; copper, manufactured, 1s. 7d.-sheet or bar, 1s. 6d. old lead, 10s. 6d. per ewt. sheet-lead, 19s 11d. per cwt.; glue, 4d. 3-4 per lb.; cordage-cables, 30s. per cwt.; ordinary twine, 5d. per lb. ; extra, 6d. marline, 3d. 1-2.

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