The street in Chester known as Whitefriars is being drained; the workmen are now engaged in the garden in front of the house occupied by Mr. Job HARRISON. Here at a depth of five or six feet, they found, on Thursday and Friday last, a great number of human remains, about twenty skulls, and other bones in proportionate quantity.

There were no traces of coffins, either of stone or of wood, but the earth seems to be full particles of bone. The site of the intended drain is bounded and crossed in all directions by solid stone masonry; and one small piece of stone, that probably has been a portion of a window, has been turned up.

The inference is that these remains occupy the site of the cemetery of the church of St. Mary, attached to the Carmelite monastery of the White Friars, which stood here in the thirteenth century. This edifice had a lofty spire which served as a beacon to the river Dee, and was taken down in 1597.

It seems, therefore, very likely that the remains are some of the friars whose resting place for six hundred years or more is now, for the first time, thus sacrilegiously disturbed.