[3] Yesterday sennight was the day appointed for opening the Union Canal to Market-Harborough: at eleven o’clock the committee and subscribers began to assemble at Gallow-Hill Wharf, where a barge and two boats, provided with seats and awnings, and adorned with laurel flags, and streamers, were waiting to receive them.

At Great-Bowden Wharf, the procession was joined by eight barges, deeply laden with coals, cokes, slates and merchandise, and the whole proceeded forward upon that part of the canal which has been recently finished, and in little more than an hour entered the bason at Harborough, amid the shouts of spectators.

- The Committee and subscribers, preceded by engineers, navigators, and bargemen, carrying instruments, tools, and implements descriptive of their respective occupations, two barge horses, streamers flags, and a band of music, walked in procession to the Angel Inn.

Between three and four o’clock, they sat down to a very elegant and sumptuous dinner; the table was plentifully supplied with fish and venison by the munificence and public spirit of J. Cradock Esq.

Their country is unquestionably much indebted to them for their successful exertions, and every friend to its improvement and manufactures, will rejoice if the trade upon the canal is such as to afford them a reasonable remuneration for the immense capital they have embarked in the concern.