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with with which lie had acceded to the wishes of the re itisitionists, in calling together a meeting of the county. (Cheers.) Mr. Gainey seconded the resolution. It has carried wish only one ur th n dissenting voices. 'l' he II Lim Sneerer shortly returned thanks for the ho nour cen'erred upon him. Mr. Nlcaksr thea proposed the 10th resolution, which is as folloiss " 10. That these resnlutions be embodied In a petition, which shall be presented to the. Commons House of Paoli:L. merit, convilina our strong but respectful solicitations that its attention may be given without di lay to this most important subject, and thin effectual measures may be adopted for the relief and rotection of the owneri.,occupiers, and labourers attic land, as well as of the other profitable classes of th• Illitish people " After being seconded, it was carried unanimously. Mr. MlSltcat then proposed t lint the petition he presented 10 Parliament by Sir W. Rowley and T. S. (lunch, L-q. the representatives of the county, and that they he itoructed to support the same. (Cheers, unit cries of " Strike out the (;;di'ne's name.') This resolution was carried In the affirmative. Mr. A, proposed that the thanks of the county be given to his Glace the Duke of Norfolk, his Grace the Duke of Grafton, anti the other noblemen and gentlemen a ho had given their talents, lime, and attention, to forward the pmeht meeting. This resolution was agreed to amid bond cheering Ti'- limn SHERIFF then declared the business of the day tube concluded, and once more dissolved the meeting. The hu-sings were in consequence cleared, and the Market• place rendered comparatively empty. HERTFORD MEETI2VG. On Friday a Meeting of the Nobility, Gentry, and Fruit°ldets of the County of Herts, took place at the Town Hall, Hertford, fur the purpose of taking into consideration the distressed state of the Agricultural interests, and the general distress of the country. At twelve o'clock the Marquess of Salisbury, the Earl of Bridgewater. Lord Dacres, Lord Verulam, Lord Cranbourne ' Sir John Sebright and the Hon. Wm. Lamb (the Members for the county), and a number of other gentlemen of the county entered the Hall. The High Sheriff (Joseph Timperon, Esq.) shortly otter opeded the business of the Meet. ing, by reading the Requisition in pursuance of which he had convened the present meeting,, and entreated that they would not digress from agricul tural topics. Lord Dacre opened the business of the Meeting, by dwelling at some length upon the existing state of agricultural distresses. lie said that there were only two modes of prominent remedy —one, a mo nopoly, so as to keep up the price, which he thought they had already by the Corn Bill ; the other, a depreciation of the currency, a measure to which he thought they could never again have re nurse. He concluded by proposing the following petition : To the Honourable the Commons of the Uuited Kingdom - - _ of Great Brit tin and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of the undersigned Owners and Occupiers of hand in the County of Herts, Sheweth,—That your petitioners are suffering under the runt intense and unparalleled distress: Your petitioners übstain front an enumeration of the several causes which have, as they conceive, brought them to their present condition, lint they cannot but remind your honourable House that, after the various flucluatione of prices which they have experienced, the circulating medium has been filially settled upon a system which bears severely against the Agaicultnral interests of the Country. Your petitioners submit to your honourable Howse, that the direct effect of the system thus adopted hes been the virtual increase of that taxation under which they have long and patiently laboured, and convinced as they are that a general reduction of the prices of all articles used and consumed by labourers in agriculture,in some degree corresponding to the reduced prices of the ptoducts of the soil, would contribute to their relief, they cannot but entertain a confident expectation that your honourable House will take Into its immediate CollbiliCl alien the ex pediency of adopting some plan of reduced taxation, which shall relieve the population of the countuy from those taxes which more immediately affect the price of labour, and which conallpiently raise to an oppressive de• gree the costs cf cultisation. Your petitioners beg to assure your honourable House, that auks adequate and immediate relief be afforded to the cm nets and occupiers of land, they cannot but cull. template the total destruction of their property ; lir Mg 1 . 011 , '1:1Cell that the sights by which they hold Olds property cm C as just and sacred as any that ease be given ty statuary pledges to other interests in the State, your petitioners etudille in the justice and equity of your las 'minable House In afford them equal recur ity Riad protee t ion. Yam- petitioners therefore pray, that the pressure of their taxation may he mitieated, and that they may receive thai 'elk( to o Melt they consider themselves so justly en titled :—And your petitioners, Three gentlemen, named Forclham, substantial furmcr► it► the county, seventlly addressed the meet ing, and one of them proposed, as an amendment, the specification in the petition of the repeal of till direct taxes affecting agriculture, such as malt, leather, soap, candles, salt, &c. The) olio hinted at the non-attendance pf their County Members during the greater part of Mr. Hume 's divisions in the House of Commons. Mr. Lamb and Sir John Sehright severally ad dressed the meeting, defended their Parliamentary conduct, declared their readiness to prtss for u di- Initiation of taxation, but declined- pledging them se•lves to be the servile adherents of Mr. Flume, or a ny other gentleman, however respectable. 1 bey 4 THE NATIONAL REGISTER were the representatives, they said, not the dole. gates of the County. The Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Cmnixturne did not think that the state of the country would admit any reduction of the public establishments, in the m inner pointed out by some of the. speakers. After a good deal of discussion the amendment, specifying the taxes to be repealed, was withdrawn for the sake of unanimity, and the original petition of Lord there carried unanimously. The meeting, which was excessively crowded, broke up at half past four o'clock. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIA. On Thursday last a Court of Common Council was held for the purpose (amongst other important matters) of taking into consideration the report of the Committee appointed •to enquire into the conduct of Alderman Waithman, during the affray between the Life Guards and the populace, on the vfith of August, at Knights bridge, and to examine witnesses touching the whole of that transaction. On the_ proposition that several officers of the city should be elected for the year ensuina, some observations were made igloo the question of electing Mr. Wontner, the Upper 11ar3hal. Several Members bore testimony to the merits of Mr. Mr. Wontner, and expressed their conviction that he would be fully competent to fulfil the duties of the office. Alderman WOOD certainly thought that Mr. Wont. ner was a mast active, intelligent, and meritorious officer, and that he ought to be raised to a higher situation when any such presented itself; but the unfortunate accident with which lie had met tendered it impossible for him to perform the arduous duties of his present situation It should be considered that the police establishment of the city was an immense expence, and that the duties which the marshal hail to perform were of a nature that required the most active exertion. After a few words from Alderman BROWN, who de clared that Mr. %Vomiter would he perfectly competent to all the duties of the situation, the worthy Upper Mar shal was re-elected onatilloOnsly. DISTURBANCES AT KNIGHTBBRIDGEME.FAVELL, in rism- to move that the report of the commuter ap pointed to enquire into the conduct of the late Sheriff, Alderman NVaithman, at Knightsbridg., during the dis turbances there on the 26th of August last, be received, declared, that the highest thanks were due to the (7fim mittee for the luminous report they had made upon the subject. He observed; that the coincidence of the testi ' molly of the different wins' sses examined was surprisi ng, and went fully to prove that the cenduct of those who had directed the military to supersede the civil authority was culpable in the extreme, and that the interposition of Aldennan Waithman was as much called for as it was humane, discreet, and intrepid. (Hear, hear.) The wonky gentleman concluded by moving that "the report be approved by the Court."—(Cheers.) Mr. lEct.tca seconded the motion. He said the evi dence of the gentlemen of the press, who were most respectable and unprejudieed,and most liberally educated, gave proof of the propriety of the Sheriff's conduct. r. J u Pe considered the conduct of Alderman %Veldt man, upon the occasion referred to, es most deserving of the warmest praise. He could not say who were the aggressors t.pon the occasion, to which all looked back with regret; but it would be useless and absurd to deny that Alderman %Vaithtnan hail acted with temperance and humanity : that the thanks of the Court, and of the Country, were due to him, and that it was owing to his admirable conduct that the consequences were not worse. (Carers.) _ . _ The motion was - carried unanimodsly. Mr. FAVELL then rose to more a resolution, that an address be presented to Parliament, expressive of the regret (tithe Court at.what had occurred at Knightsbridge, and of their hope that ettrptiry should be instituted into the eiretunstatices, &e. Mr. F.LLICE seconded the reFolot:on. The Petition to the House OfCinnutotts vizs then read and agreed on, and orileird to he presented by the Sheriffs and Itemembrancer in the usual form, and the Court requested the City Members to support the same. The following method of preserving milk at sea, during the longest voyage, and in the warmest cli mate, equally sweet as when it was first drawn from the cow, may not be unacceptable to the generality of our readers:—Provide a quantity of pint or quart bottles (new ones are perhaps the best) ; they must be perfectly sweet and clean, and likewise very dry before they were made use of. Instead of drawing the milk from the cow into the pail as usual, it is to he milked into the bottles; as coon as any of them are filled suilieiently, they should be immediately well corked with the very best corks, in order to keep out the external air, and &stetted tight with packthread, or wire, as the corks in bottles which contain cider generally are. Then on the bottom of an iron or copper boiler spread a little straw ; on that Jay a row of the bottles filled with milk, with some straw betwixt each, to prevent them from lac:M.lg, and so on alternately until the boiler has sufficient quantity in; then fill it up with cold ‘vater ; heat the water gradually until it begins to boil, and as soon as that is perceivable draw the fire; the betties must remain undisturbed in the boiler until they are quite cold ; then take them out, and afterwards puck them in hampers, either with straw or sawdust, and stew them in the cooless part of the ship. The perpetual motion of the sea in time improves milk, equally as much us it does Madeira wine - • ^:•••••=. I=___l - S ...ii.. VIOLENT ASSAULT IN FRANCE UPON THREE ENGLISII GENTLEMEN. On Sunday the 27th ult. about four o'clock in the afternoon, as Mr. George Trevor Spencer, son of at.: Hon. W. R. Spencer, Captain Holds, R.N. nephew to the Dean of ‘Vitichester, and Mr. John Fordyce, were on their return from Paris, they got out of tits Diligence in which they were travelling, lor the purpose of walking up one of the steep hills which lie between Boulogne mid Calais : when they bad almost ascended the hill, they were met by two Ftenclinten aimed with doub'e barrelled guns, apparently returning from sporting, who after staring at them in a very impertinent and offensive manner, accosted them with " Voila de ties Angiais." On Captain remarking that he hoped the sportsmen would know them tt hen they met again, they cocked their guns and threatened to fire upon them; at the same one of the Frenchmen presented, and immediately recovered his aims ; but the other waiting till the English gentlemen had turned their backs its order to proceed tin their walk, deliberately discharged his piece at them, at the distance of not more than as paces, by which the whole party were wounded. Capt. I lollis received several shot (which were what the French call chevrons', and about the size of the English buck shot,) in his hand and arm, as well as in different parts of his body, by which he was very seriously hurt, and Mr. Spencer and M r.Fordyce were also injured,althougli in a much slighter degree. The t illains proceeded clown the hill till they came within sight of the Diligence, when they ran away across the fields, pursued by the wounded gentlemen, and Sir John Scott Lillie, who was travelling in their company, but happened to he at some distance behind when the assault was committed. On flatting themselves closely pursued, they again pre gented their guns, threatening to blow out the brains of any one who attempted to follow them; so that the English party, who were totally unarmed, were com pelled to abandon the attempt. On their arrival at NI (rise, they gave information to the gens-d'armes on duty at the village, who instantly went in search of the assas sins. At Calais the affair was laid before the Prefect of Police, who behaved in the most gentleman-like man ner, and made every exertion to discover the perpetra tots of this unprovoked and cowardly attack upon three unarmed strangers. The party were also much indebted to the kind attention of Thos. Fonblatique; Esq. the English Consul at Calais, who immediately wrote a re presentation of the ease to Sir Charles Stewart. In the event of their being arrested, of which there can be little doubt, the gentlemen have all pledged themselves to prosecute, and we feel confident that the French Go. vernment will most severely visit such a violent breach of law and hospitality upon the cowardly offenders. MONTHLY AGRICIPLTURAL REPORT. ....., This report consists merely of the echo of former dis. tresses. W respect to the routine of country business, there is nothing of novelty or interest to mention. The Wheats, whore they have not been flooded, are generally found to look well; but drawn upward as they have been, by a constant series of warm and moist weather, without the slightest check from frost, the apprehension is far from being groundless, that they may he exhausted Its excessive vegetation, and ultimately be more produc tive in Straw than Corn. It was supposed last month, from the wet and poachv state of a great part of the lamb, that much of the Wheat sowing must be post poned till after Christmas ; hut front subsequent account;, in spite of all difficulties, it seems that a finish has been generally made. Talavera (Spanish) Wheat is getting nut of repute; perhaps Corn from a warm climate should never be sown in tin; country in autumn, until it shall have become naturalized to our soil. Sheep, its course, are doing badly abroad, with their fleece and loins con stantly wet, feeding on sodden and half rotted turnips. The mortality among them in various counties, an:l in Scotland, has already been considerable; and unless a speedy change in the weather should supervene, a gene ral rot, like those in former days, may be apprehended-- in the mean time, those who keep sheep abroad in such circumstances, yet possessing the means of feeding thent under shelter (and there are many such men) may, per haps, be wise men, though sorry acid ttors; but custom and fashion must ever govern practices, at well in sheep husbandry as in physic and public fortune teller of prime notoriety, who, moreover, refers to the exact fulfilment of his former predictions, has lately vim. tined to prophesy a still farther decline in the price of Wheat, to the ratio of cent. per cent. Give the markets time fur this, and the prediction may be verified; but should the old rules of weather-wis•lom hold their ground, and a warm and moist whiter be followed by a cold and blighting spring and summer, it may be pre. slimed, that neither the quantity norquality of the future Wheat crop will give much sanctioo to a farther decline of price, in whatever humour currency may find itself. During several weeka past, the c..usea of rain and fog, of the ((brunet patticularly, appears to have been evidently exhausted ; yet a state of moisture in the atmosphere has constantly prevailed, and the lands have remained its a very wet and poach) , state. 'Film arc at present Bre tt hopes of a favourable state. Fine, heavy, dry Wheat, short in quantity, alit' 11111101 in requeo, is worth 755. per quarter ; but in gent ral, all kinds of produce are ne cessarily at a declining price, since the supply invariably exceeds the demand. Perhaps Long %Vuol is an excel). lion, being rather ready of sale. Nlanufactures are in a far more prosperous slate than Agriculture, and ate gra. dually relieving the laud from a part of its superfluous labourers.—ltar. 31. Government have established a large steam packet at Bristol, which is to be attached to the War•ofice derailment iu that city; it is called the George the Fourth. Extensive have been established at Cog. geslmil, in ES44:,X, at Wl liell lio persons arc already employed. • r !►,.. 1