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hood.
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is a *Aim hi Oho tortralitiallik.iraiftirr
jest of the peopobediteeptioitleci I. • • " Tyti
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County Mersin ars varied., sad as a asertior of this de.
seriptiou ego only be beaelicial by its twisty Nearly salmi-
mans, we consider it to he moat emedieat so misread for
the present the application to tbe gli Merit, I. the hope
that in the emitting Session of Parliament the dignity of the
Crown nod the hoonur of the coootry say be dilly support.
eil, and that* systems of economy and liberal policy say be
adopted. calculated to Olivia., the diidiewses, sad restore
*be confident. of a brave loyal, sod eulighteued people.
Cn.ler Afro liopremilies, soar io cooforntily sit\ Hie
Irish of several respectable isdivialushi, we beg leave so re-
cnnamerd for the pramnf, a ,sespension of the proposed
meeting. We pledge ourselves hosrever, to the fifty-one
Noblemen sad Gentlemen, Irks bate honoured tritls
their remission to add their thossas to a Requisition, to be
prepared as say time, to obey their •ishes in forwarding as
application In the High Sheriff forcalliog • County Mectiug.
We have the tumour to be, Sidi great respect,
Your very obedient Servants,
THOMAS SWI N N ERTON,
EDWARD JERVIS RICKETTS,
THOMAS I.I4TER.

B.ITH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The I meeting of the • Rath sod West of England
Society, for the eneuuragemest of agriculture, arts, mean.
factures, and cionmeice,coameenceill on Moodily last at Iles.
lime Mow. air John Cox Ilippisley, Bart. V.P. was unani-
mously called to Ike Chair.
Tuesday being the auirlaal day of meeting, the room
was crowded at an early holm Thais were present the Doke
of Sionereet, the hiarireis of Lansdown, Earl Waldegriive,
Lord J. O'Brieo, Sir J. C. Hippisley, Sir Isaac Giffin, Won.
Cockhorn, Charles Nick Hilary Lippneutt; T. G. &scrawl,
Esq. M.P. ; J. Resell, Esq 31. P.; J. D. Art ley, Esq. M. I'. ;
Vice-Admiral Robinson, Colour, Homer, Charles Gordon
Gray, Esq. R. Spencer, Esq &c.
The appointment if officers look precedence in the torsi-
titan of the day. The Must Noble the Marquis of Lanolown
was re-elected President by serialisation, and was conthicied
to the Chair by Sir Juha Cox Dippisley and Sir William
Cockburn, Hart.. The aslustes of general meetings
throughout the year; • letter snit Matemeat front Dioctor
as the properties of the pyroligneous •ciil ; sad
letters from Mr. Illaildwsrd, giving an aaaaaa t of hie ixpe-
rtments in epode husbandry ; anal of his court-a-wick pippin
cider, were next read. The following was the experisieut
in spade husbandry.—
" The inangel worxel, Guern.ey parsnips, long carrots, and
short cisme., are all of field, not garden growth; and the
immense size of the mantel worse, arises from- the dress.
listings of the grub on their aeighhoorri. Oil slow screw of
old arable, much out of €.00(1;44,44 I began the work of
cleansing and manuring with vetches on oaf stubble,
which were cat for soiling. succeeded immediately by rattle
cabbage, flanged after the rate rif 80 carts load per were.
On this fuloolstion 1 have grown prroips and amuse'
wortri in dill's et wide intervals (so as to hoe the crops with
case), after the effective digging with obe spade, or if 1 bad
more manure to Upon, • second digging, is order to vary
it. The carrot crop follows these, and I. nesnired with
coal ashes sad perhaps • sprinkling of root us the sorfsee
of the ground after she plant appears. The husbandry ne-
cesaisry nftrr reviling the land is two hoeiispi by baud, and
regular thinning. My isisogel worse, crop amounts to lit
tons of mole, owl Missive emough, in addition to • Seers.
miry allowance ally, about 1 cwt. per week, to feed a heifer
more thus • year. The short carrots amount to the rate of
31 lore (tamely) per acre, ninetera perches 084 • half hawk,/
given 73 carts. The parsnip crop, onfortursately, was judged
of from the part Arid dug (for sale to • farmer ler feeding
cattle, at Ss. 5.1. per cwt. or 50s. per ton: he bought two
Iona), and did out amount to twelve lons per sere; the other
port from the Guernsey seed was much hatter, hut 1 do not
think it to have exceeded 18 leas per acre. la cslculatior
the value of carrots and parsnip crops by Ike pardenerb
prices, • suns tippets:a which astoolshet. 1 have sold more
than 80 guises@ worth, and do not think more than one-third
of the praises of one acre sad • half to have peeved from
my hand; that is, 1 have sold the prodote of half an acre.
At borne, 1 sell either carrots or pariiiip at 50s. the too;
hot prefer vetainiog Dm parse** of the Iwo, from the ',kit of
their more mutt live quality. I give you below the lime of
soolog the crops, and the distances of the drills
I *fervid.. ft. la.
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Mang. worse!, Aro lur Party is May, 2 thinned in the ro,:s I
Parmsips.... Early ip March..." I 3 in the rows_ I 0
Mareb. llmedesst.
" The tumor' mars,' must be sermed from lb* frost,
sad should be off the loud the Pad of November."

A letter was mafioso the Secretary to the Lawton Society
of Arts, enclosing specimens of rice and of other genies
brought from the mountainous districts of Nepsul, with a
request that this Society wuaid put them iu a course of ex.
perinienti, in order to ascertain the 'possibility ofcrliivatiog
them in /N. ope.
The Rev. Mr. HAVILAND, in an eloquent speech, moved
that Captain Parry, R.N should be presented with the silver
medal, sod appointed an honorary and corresponding Mem.
tier of the Society; mid that the Must Noble the Marquis of
[Attaches!) be requested to communicate the same by teller.
An amendment was then moved by the Duke of Somerset to
substitute the Gold Bedfordiau 'Medal, seconded by Admiral
Sir I. Coffin, and carried unanimously.
Mr. Be CKLAND then lose, mid iu a luminous speech pro.
posed—" That an humble Petition be presented to truth
Douses of Parliament, praying that they would be pleased
to appoint a Committee to institute a full mid solemn in.
quiry into the canoes whicb have prorlured, and are still pro.
duciog, the depressed state into which the sericulture, mann.
fact ores, Slid commerce of this kingdom have been reduced."
The motion was seconded by R. Spooner, Esq. in au du.
Brent speech. It was opposed with much animation and
farce by the Rev. Mr. Lilly, Hastings Elwin, Esq. Sir J. C.
flippialey, Bart. and D. B Payne, Esq. on the grounds of
Its b in; completely out of the province of the Sudety to
interfere.
Mr. LILLY moved as an Amendment, that the motius be
net now put, which was seconded by H. Elm's, Esq. and
carried by a large majority.
In the afternoon the company dined towhee, mid the
prises were d&striboted to the successful candidates.
The Agricultural Association of the middle district of the
county of Buckingham met list week, and !greed to petition
Parliament 00 the distress now so general, abstaining from
pointing out any 'picric remedy fur the evil.

A practice which well de to be known and
imiiated, is e•tshltshed at Mare-field l'Ark. the seat
of Sir J. SHELLUY, Hirt. MI.P. Rewards are
given annually on New Yeai'li Day. to ►Lich of the
industrious poor of the neiglitionrhooil as have not
received parish relief, and have most ili.iiiignished
tliettnelaes by their good behaviour and industry
—the neatness of their cottages aid gardens.
and their constant attendance at chords, Ste.—
The annual distribution was made on Monday last
by Lady Suatt.xx, assisted by some ether Ladies,
and it wits most graiifying to observe the hippy
effects upon the character and disposition of the
poor people with which this benevolent practice
has been attended doviiig the few years it has
been established. Though the highest reward does
not exceed two gu netts, yet it ha. elicited a won-
derful spirit of emulation, and many a ►trenuous
effort to avoid reeriving money Iron, tile pariah. Im-
mediate!, after the ricwaids were given, one hundred
and forty-nine of the children belonging to the Still..
day School •il the Nsiional School lately establish.
ed in the parish, sit down to a plentiful ditineriti
the bervarrs' hall, and after dinner they also receiv.
ed prises fur their good conduct at teachers, ■yd
their diligence as scholar/.