The National Register. — London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

214 IRELAM). At a late hour on Wednesday, March 3, Judge Day got theirgh the whole of the calendar at Clomirell, not withstauding it was remarkably heavy ; a great number of prisoners, however, were discharged for want of prosecution. It is fully understood nmone_st the cotillion people in that country, that any person wino comes fans - Ird to support a prosecution must abandon his home .for ever, ml settie in a • distant part of the king& in. There were in all but sit persons executed. Fielding, who re l je,:;cd the Mier of pardon on becoming an evidence agait st his i.l:lstor, John Ryan, for the murder of Burke and Doherty, and Gurninii. the house at Chantersland, and who in consequ.a.ce was tried and convicted lii.oself for the same aitliaire, vi as eaecated Gil Wednesday. When at the gallows he ex - pres;eil the utmost regret, that his obstinacy had been of no use to his master, and that he had fallen a useless sari-flee. - T N the charge or the Honourable Justice Day, to the Grand Jury of .he county of Tipperary, he said, upon looking through your' Calentlai:, I perceive, weth infinite regret and pain, that the afflicting reports from ltence appear to have been in no wise exaggerated. 1f the Calendar (as I have sometimes heard it called) la: the criminal Barometer of Bailiwick", if the state of the gaol be no unfaithful epitmue of the moral and civil condi tion of the county at large, then is the state of civil society in your county deplorable in the extreme. I hold iu my hand a paler. which for its size and quantity of matter, resembles more the chart of a county than the Calendar of its gaol ; an affecting catalogue of lIS of our unfortunate fellow creatures, incarce rated since the last assizes, under charges of the deepest atro city. In truth, it is a downright misnomer, a gross :ope aunt perversion of a languaAe to say that civil society exists in a country so iuundated with crime. PRO V 11 C !ALS. CAVTTON TO Srfte.vcrs.—Af the last Kingston Assizes, Charles Martin, -coachman to Sir William Rosh, was tried on an indictment for defrauding his master of 4d. by 0% ercharg ibg for bating his horses on the 19th of October last. This sum was selected us admitting of the most easy proof; but it appears, from his weekly books, and the testimony of the dif ferent tradesmen, that he has been for a long time in the habit of overcharging all the articles which went through his bards full one-third, and often i,ach more; that he frequelaly charged expenees nut incurred, and on other occasions never paid the bills for which he received the amount front his master. In sue instance he charged Sir William Rush, from Nov. 4 to Dec. 21, nt Brighton, 41. Os, for eight bushel of beaus, while it appears, from the declaration of the stable-keeper, that the horses had only Is. worth of beans (hiring the above time. The charge in the indictment being clearly proved, he was s a vowed to twelve months imprizqmiliCat. The above example, it is hoped, will operate as it salutary warning to servants. Their wages have of late years been so high as to leave them wholly without excuse for fraud; and the trust neces,aril% placed in them is so great, that no punishment, short of capi tal, can be too great for the breach of it. It is a duty, there fore, which every Gentleman ones to society, to prosecute the offenders. On this ground the learned Judge observed, that Sir IVilliain Rush deserved the thanks of the county for bringing this man to juqice. _ _ At the last Assizes for the county of Dorset, a cause was tried of considerable importance to people in private life, who are able to keep servants.—Au indictment was brought by Jos. Hyde against J. S. Parha►n, Esq. for an assault.—The former warirrvunt to the defeadant, by whom he had been discharged, but Who refused to quit the house. A struggle ensued, and iu the end the prosecutor being turned out of the thouse, he in dieted his master at the nest Assizes. The defeadant was ac quitted, to the satisfaction of a crowded Court, as it appeared that when a mater discharges a servant for improper beha% iour, and the latter refuses to go, the necessary force ►nay be used to effect his removal. At the late Hereford Assizei, in an action brought by 1116 Natty, of the Wear, near Hereford, zigaiost Mr. Wilgon, Attor ney, near Wats, to recover WWI. -the penalty of a bond granted by the Defendant to the Plaintilt, promising h e r m arr i age , th e Jur, aftAaaloug trial, gave a verdict for GUM Aar' Qu / . —There was ili,covered in digging a trench near lei oadgate Holm., in the neighbourhood of Ing Chapel, in L e: , 3 0,-dand, a Roman bulla, at the depth of two. fret below the surface of the earth. It iv a very tunfurna ring, made of jet, " Aril!, 3. and retains a very beautiful polish ; although It can scarce be le: s than iss o ars old ;it being so putg since the Romans quitted Britain. The diameter of this hulla or ring, at the out..ide the ritA is inches and : and its ilkide, Or shortcst k 2 inches and 4-10ths—and the specific gravity of this light vet durable sub , -tauce is ofil V . as MIS to one w hen compared with rain water : that is hulk for bulk ; tlik jet being car c e ohe and a quarter the weight of rain water ; and therefore more convenient to wear at the breast, as au ornament, than a livit‘icr übstance. A person near Braintree, io E%sex, hay long had annually, acre of carrots for horse food, which lie considers also ruts, ex cellent for COVI', as contributing. greatly to tin increase Of the riehnes , and flavour of their milk. Ile eptimate, oue bie‘hi.l carrots to be in nutriment and value equal to tote peek of 0;n, , , He has allowed one bushel of carrots per horse, per xv;ia. out oats:, for four Iv inter months. 'film use;{ till dr), of all yegetable, the least las ative. lle -10 • f1 . 1)111 tc.l pounds of seed per acre. Had once (309 bushel, ; but not tuna, on an as erage of three vearS, th.tu from three to 400 O t i s h e i, i hT ;RTC. Sir Joseph Banks, from varinmi experiments, rind .the experi ence of many year. 4, recommend:, a tyneral tee i‘al of the e.)w almost obsolete practice of layiurrtra w under Ar:is% herr% it::;tit-, n hen the fruit begins to swell, by wli;clt rhea the root:. ate shaded from the sun, the n a-,te of einsi s tire, 1), eva pc , rat pre vented the !caning fruit kept from damage hv tf`<iii on t::c particularly in net n cai ber, much hi hi) lir in na write> saved. T‘s.clity true of long Straw arc su ffi cient for I;4oo " feet of plants. Mr. Russell, a farmer, at GressenhaW, Norfolk, has this veal an ewe, five years old, which has y caned four lanais ; they are all well, two are bringing up as cot-, the other two are mused by the another. It is remarkable of this ewe, that she ha- u'au ed within four year lambs, of which only live have died. Esperimew.al agriculturists DOW strongly reeionmead, in•acal of ages for pigs, that every farmer simaild get cures MAC oa wheels, which may he shifted from place to place. :wad if neta•s sar.. , moved Marna on grass land for its iinprov (anent. At Wrexham fair, which commenced on Tuesday, the *hew of Irish, Manchester, Yorkshire, and Birmingham mahunie tures was very great. Owing to the late w hats, the arri.:its from Ireland were late. Linens in Neutral looked (loan: and Speculative purchases were made to a considerable amanita, in the hope of an amicable adjustment with America. Leather retained its price, and much busing's:* was done. A few days since a violent explosion happened at the gam powder works, belonging to Messrs. Jeakens and Love, at Battle, in Sussex. The fire began in the corni*-house, and communicated front thence to n magazine, wherein were up wards of 200 barrels of gunpowder, the explosion of a hick swept away the dry - nag -house, running -house, and other bulb!- lugs. Two men who were at work were killed, mad a chill lost its life by being struck by some of the shattered ruins. A pair of oxen, which had been worked, and fatted ou yeas and hay only, by Thomas 'Nark, Esq. of Landport, were last week slaughtered in Less is, and weighed, one the amazing , weight of HY stone, aNd the other 18t? stone; a degree of weight and fatness which has, perhaps, been never eXeCcded by aay two bullocks, fed on grass and hay only, in the kimlom. There is now ill a garden at the Iligh-house, near Morpeth, s:raw berry In blow in the open ground, or rather a northern as pect. The plant has live blossoms, the first of which has done atoning, and the strawbeiry is cairn 'Roe' y set. On Monday last, a man publicly sold his wife to a fisher man, in the market at Brighton, for £aoeal9 shillings and a I,lun : derbuss! The disposed of female, apparently " nothing loth, walked, with her new proprietor, to a neighbouring public house, where her left-hand nuptials were e!ebrated, in a mans ner entirely suitable to the occasion! These sort dlf india.enco••, which have of late become very frequent, e think, should he put a stop to; they are quite a 3 di sg r ac eful as the practice • among the great, some time since prevented by an Act ot the Legislature, viz. that of driving their wives into the alms of gallants, and then petitioning the P4rliameut to allow them to purchase new ones? A very singular and most impudent robhery was commilted on Friday sermight in Liverpool : carter went to the warehouse of Mrs. I:rodes, and obtained from the wnretum-en►au a load of rope, under plau,ibie pretests, which he carried oil, and their came for another. ►ie returned a third time, when, his pur pose being suspected, he 11:44 tukeu tato custody, ;tud mu:lauded fur trial. THE NATIONAL DEGISTER. I .