town of the county of Sussex, and the hundred of Holmstrong, sixty miles distant from London. It stands at the mouth of the river Ouse, and is the port of Lewes, where the custom-house is established. It was formerly a place of more importance than at present; but the harbour has been neglected, and nearly choked up by sand. It is sometimes called Meeching. The population amounted in 1801 to 584, in 1811 to 755, in 1821 to 927, and in 1831 to 904.

an ancient and considerable fishing village, situated on the Frith of Forth, less than two miles north from Edinburgh, and one mile west from Leith. The village is formed by a street running contiguous with the shore, with several back lanes, and in appearance it has nothing to recommend it to attention. It possesses a low-water pier, which affords shelter to the fishing boats of the station, and accommodation to the ferry and other steamers in the taking up and landing of their passengers and goods. A handsome chapel has lately been erected at the west end of the village, and forms a subsidiary place of worship, or chapel of ease, to North Leith church. The inhabitants are a most industrious race, both sexes being busily employed, the men in procuring the fish, and the females in carrying them to the market. The oyster-bank is valuable, and yields fish of excellent quality. Were it turned to its proper account, it would yield a far greater amount of revenue to the proprietors. At the west end of the village there has been erected within these few years a considerable suburb, called Trinity, consisting chiefly of houses built in the villa style, and cottages for sea-bathing quarters. There is a chain-pier here, built by Captain Brown, from which steamers for various quarters hourly depart. A bill passed last session (1836-37) for constructing a harbour here, in order to accommodate the large class of steamers plying between the English and Scotch capitals. At Granton, about a mile farther west, a harbour is considerably advanced for the same purpose. There is no municipal government in Newhaven, the superiors of the place being the town-council of Edinburgh, who purchased it in the year 1511, with all the privileges and rights with which James IV. had endowed it. Along with Leith, Portobello, Musselburgh, and Fishrow, it returns a member to Parliament.

NEW HOLLAND. See AUSTRALASIA.