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machinery, shaft sinking, and boring. Models of the Applications and Manufacture of Cast and Wrought Iron: -Smelting furnaces; coke ovens; blast, common air, and reverberating furnaces; blowing apparatus; blast engines; rolling and slitting mills; forges; foundries; chain cables; iron roofs; girders; suspension bridges. Carpentry and Timber Framing :-Roofs, floors, centre bridges, &c.; specimens of the various descriptions of wood used in building and engineering; examples of remarkable structures executed in timber. Brickwork and Masonry:-Specimens of marble, stone, brick, lime, cement, &c., with reference to their weights, specific gravity, situation, value, &c. Naval Architecture :Models of ships of war, merchant class, steam boats," &c. Single admission, one shilling to the gallery, and to the courses of lectures one shilling for each lecture. Children under twelve years admitted at half-price.

THE LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE

It is, we

Is situate at Withington, near Manchester. understand, intended for the education of young men for the work of the ministry among the Independents of Lancashire, and the neighbouring counties. The edifice, which is handsome and substantial, has been erected at a cost of about £20,000, including the purchase of seven acres of land; and it is designed, ultimately, to accommodate fifty students. But as the college is not ready for occupation, and the whole scheme of education to be pursued is not yet before the public, we are not at present able to specify the precise arrangements, or to furnish a list of the respective tutors. We feel assured, however, that an institution, so honourably commenced, will be judiciously planned, and liberally sustained by the zeal and generosity of its numerous friends; and that it will, ere long, prove an extensive blessing to the churches of its own denomination, not only in this populous county, but in different parts of the kingdom to which the labours of its students may be directed.

WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.

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THE MANCHESTER NEW COLLEGE.

An Educational Institution bearing this designation, from the fact of its having originally been established in this town, whence it was removed to York, has recently been located in Grosvenor-street, Chorltonupon-Medlock. It contains a fine library of 15,000 volumes.

THE WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.

The northern branch of this institution is situate at Didsbury, about five miles from Manchester. The neighbourhood is one of the most pleasant and healthy in Lancashire. The building, the centre of which, was formerly the mansion of the late Colonel Parker, has an ornamental stone front, and retiring wings, forming three sides of a quadrangle. It contains ample accommodation for forty students. The land connected with the institution extends over about ten acres, and is beautifully laid out in walks, &c.

Within the enclosure are erected a chapel for the use of the institution to which, however, the public will have access, and dwelling houses for the theological and classical tutors. The object of the institution is the preparation for orders of candidates for the Wesleyan ministry, who pass through the usual collegiate course. The students will occupy a portion of the Sabbath in preaching in the towns and villages in the neighbourhood. This institution is now almost ready for the reception of students, and it is expected that in the autumn of this year all its arrangements will be completed.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC PERSONS,

And eminent characters, connected with Manchester. The list we shall present, will necessarily be brief, because, in some instances, from feelings of delicacy, we can give the names only, and in many, we could not be permitted even to do that-of gentlemen, still upon the stage of life, of whom Manchester has reason to be proud. It will be observed, that several names of historical interest merely are introduced.

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Of most of the following persons connected with Manchester, either by birth or residence, extended notices will be found in Mr. Wheeler's "Manchester."

LORD DE LA WARRE was rector of Manchester in the beginning of the 15th century, and founder of the Collegiate Church. He died in 1427.

HUGH OLDHAM, bishop of Exeter, who died in 1529, is supposed to have been a native of Manchester. He was the founder of the Manchester Grammar School.

JOHN BRADFORD, a martyr, in the reign of Queen Mary, was born in the reign of Henry VIII. It is said of him, that "he was of a most gentle nature, and even his enemies wished for the preservation of his life."

DOCTOR JOHN DEE. This remarkable man was born in London, in 1527, and fixed his residence in Manchester, in 1596. He was accused of necromancy, although a warden of Christ's Church; and died miserably poor, in 1608.

JOHN BOOKER, the learned imposter, was born in Manchester, in 1601. He published "The Bloody Almanack," and "The Bloody Irish Almanack; or rebellious and bloody Ireland discovered, in some Notes extracted out of an Almanack printed in Waterford, for this year, 1646,” &c.

JOHN BYROM, the inventor of a System of Short Hand, and a poet of considerable talents, was born at Kersal, near Manchester, in 1691. This gentleman was a contributor to the Royal Society, and furnished three papers to the "Spectator.' He died in 1763, aged seventy-one.

DR. S. OGDEN, vicar of Danurham, Wiltshire, was born in Manchester. This divine possessed great talent; but was remarkable for his bluntness of manner and disposition. He died in 1778, aged sixty-two.

DR. THOMAS PERCIVAL, of whom the late archbishop of Dublin writes, "He was an author without vanity, a philosopher without pride, a scholar without pedantry, and a Christian without guile," was born in Warrington, in 1740, and lived in Manchester a considerable portion of his life. He died in 1804.

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THE DUKE OF Bridgewater, born in 1736, a nobleman, whose name must ever be associated with Manchester. He projected and carried into execution the canal between Manchester and Runcorn, which bears his name. Although the Duke made a return to the income tax of £11,000 a year, (derived from his canal property and coal mines,) he lived, during many years, upon an expenditure of only £400 per annum. He practised this economy in order to embark all his resources in the national work which he had determined to complete. He died in 1803.

CHARLES WHITE, an eminent surgeon, who died in 1813; and THOMAS BARRITT, the famous antiquary, who died in 1820, were both inhabitants of Manchester. THOMAS HENRY, a celebrated chemist, settled in Manchester in the year 1764. To this gentleman the world is indebted for many valuable discoveries in chemistry, as applied to the arts. He was a contributor to the "Transactions of the College of Physicians, London," and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773. He died in 1816, aged eighty-one years.

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DR. HENRY, Son of the preceding, claims, on account of his proficiency in chemical science, a distinguished place in the biography of Manchester men. Lord Brougham, in his address at the Mechanics' Institution in Manchester, in 1835, referred to Dr. Henry in the most respectful terms as being his fellow-student. met," he said, "an old and worthy friend of mine, a man of great ability and learning, your townsman, Dr. Henry. We were fellow-collegians, and learned chemistry together-though, God wot, he learned a great deal more than I did." Dr. Henry died in 1836, aged sixty-one years.

DR. DALTON, born near Cockermouth, in 1766, has been an inhabitant of Manchester upwards of forty years. His Meteorological Observations, his discovery of the Atomic Theory, and his profound philosophical acquirements, (especially in chemical science,) have gained for him the reverence and esteem of the learned in all countries. He is a member of various learned

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societies, and is the author of many scientific papers.The habits of perseverance and deep thought, acquired in his younger days, seem to have steadily increased with his years, and the old age of the venerable philosopher is consequently attended by these characteristics.

SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., the father of the present baronet, was, for many years a merchant of Manchester. He was born in 1750, at Peel Fold. He was one of the earliest calico printers in the town, and acquired, by trade, an enormous fortune. He was the author of a pamphlet, entitled, "National Debt Productive of National Prosperity." He represented the borough of Tamworth in parliament for many years, and died in 1830, at the age of eighty years.

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MRS. FLETCHER, better known as Miss Jewsbury, was a native of Manchester. Her literary productions, Lays of Leisure Hours," and "Letters to the Young," have been, and continue to be, deservedly popular. She died in 1833.

HENRY LIVERSEEGE, born in Manchester, in 1803, was a promising artist. His paintings were exhibited in the Royal Academy, and indicated the hand of a master. His death took place in 1832.

CHARLES SWAIN, born in 1803, is a Manchester man. Southey has said of him and his works,-"His poetry is made of the right materials. If ever man was born to be a poet, he was: and if Manchester is not proud of him yet, the time will certainly come when it will be so."

T. K. HARVEY, the author of " The Devil's Progress, Poetical Sketch-Book," and various other poetical productions, served a clerkship to the law in the town of Manchester.

W. H. AINSWORTH, the popular author of " Rookwood," "Jack Sheppard," editor of " Ainsworth's Magazine," and several other literary productions, is a native of Manchester, and

DE QUINCEY, the author of" Confessions of an English Opium Eater," is said to have been born in the house known as the Princes' Tavern, in Cross-street, corner of Princess-street, in Manchester. At the age of fifteen,