given by the Rev. Thomas D. Hincks, one of the managers and founders of the establishment. These lectures are to be continued; and an additional course of lectures on agriculture is preparing by another very respectable gentleman.

His Excellency the Duke of Bedford, the Lord Lieutenant, has been graciously pleased to approve the plan; and to express his intention that, when the old Custom-House, part of which is still occupied by the excise department and by the collector of the customs, shall be no longer wanted for those purposes in consequence of the erection of a new Custom-House, it shall be given to the Institution, and that rooms shall be allotted in it for the following purposes, viz.

1. A Lecture room, with one or two rooms near it for the different apparatus;

2.-A Laboratory for chemical operations: 3. A Room for a collection of minerals:

4.-A store for the most approved implements of husbandry;

5.-A small observatory;

6.-A library for scientific works for the use of the members;

7. Two rooms for the use of the Cork

library;

8. A Room for the use of the farming society or committee of Agriculture; in which specimens of grain, timber, &c. and useful notices of various kinds may be kept; and

9. A Board Room, in which the members of the society shall hold their various meetings; and which may be occasionally used for the meetings of committees on business of a public nature.

The objects of the lectures will be Natural Philosophy, Chemistry including Mineralogy, Botany, and Agriculture. A Botanical garden will also be established at a short distance from the city, the objeets of which will be chiefly agricultural, and in which all unnecessary expense will be avoided.

Though it will be impossible to accomplish every part of this plan, until the CustomHouse is given to the Institution, yet the lectures and some other parts of it, on a smaller scale, will be immediately carried into effect, at the house of the Institution on St. Patrick's Hill.

The management of the institution will

remain with the proprietors, who will consist of the original subscribers and such others as shall hereafter be admitted by ballot. After the completion of the charter, no person can become a proprietor under a sum of thirty guineas, to be paid on admission; but the advantages of the institution may be obtained for life, or during a year, on the the payment. of sums hereafter to be fixed by the byelaws.

After this short statement of the objects of the institution, and what the members propose to effect, it can hardly be supposed that any will call in question the benefits, likely to result from it. These indeed have appeared so evident to the LORD LIEUTENANT and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that they have shewn every disposition to render essential services to the Institution, and to enable the managers to extend their views. Those valuable institutions also, the Dublin Society, and the Farming Society ofIreland, are desirous of acting in concert, and of forwarding the views of the Cork Institution, and have expressed a wish that similar societies may be formed in other parts of Ireland. The inte

rests of agriculture are so generally and justly regarded as of the first importance, that the managers will either adopt whatever measures may appear most calculated for the advancement of it, or will give every accommodation in their power to the Cork farming society, if this be deemed more expedient.

16 Jan. 1807.

No. XXII.

Report of the Visitor and Guardians of the House of Industry, at Winchester.

AVERY material increase having taken place in this Establishment since the publication of the last printed Report, the VISITOR and GUARDIANS think it proper, at this time, to lay before their respective parishioners (particularly for the information of those who have lately united), a short account of the origin, progress, and present state of this Institution.

Towards the close of the year 1795, the inhabitants of three parishes in and near Winchester, at meetings duly held agreeable to Act of the 22d of his present Majesty (commonly called Gilbert's Act), agreed to adopt the rules and regulations therein prescribed for parishes, uniting for the better relief and employment of the poor. A Visitor and 23 Guardians were, in consequence, appointed, who founded the present Establishment, by