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Burgh Reform, and City Deformity, a Dramatic Poem. Second Edition. 2s.
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SCOTTISH CHRONICLE.
As a mark of the increasing prosperity of this part of the country, we publish with much pleasure the following statement, dated Glasgow, January 29.—The toll-dues of the Forth and Clyde navigation, which in 1816 amounted to £31,795:12:1, amounted in 1817 to £38,657:3:10.
Union Canal.—We understand the Union Canal Company entered into a contract last week for executing the first ten miles of the Canal westward from Gilmour Street, Edinburgh, for a sum considerably below the estimate of the Company's Engineer.
A very remarkable accident took place on the afternoon of Tuesday, during the high winds:—As two young lads of Alloa were walking on a very dangerous part on the top of the tower of Clackmannan, the height of which is about ninety feet, a sudden gust of wind came, which suddenly precipitated