The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-10 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

In consequence of the general mild•tess of the wea-
ther, the clops are every IA here locking well ; a ti,u-r
season for Barley and other Spring corn sowing was
scarcely ever remembered. The quantity of rain that
fell dioiog the month, without being too much to chill
the Corn, has beers enough to keep the land in gol.ll
order, and materially to beNeft the ponies, which air
remarkably lull of lied. A great pronortion of tite,e
mug be saved for inowitig. the layers fallirt% very far
short of the usual breadth for hay; a sort of fatality
arms to attend them, for of those which stir% iced the
extreme drought of last year, many do not appear to
grow, are thin of plant, and full of rubbish.
There is a prodiaions show of blossom on fruit-trees of
all kiwis, particularly pears, which were very scarce last
year, but promise, unless destroyed by cold east winds,
to make up for the deficiency this. Our 'tights }laic
been frosty during the last week, but we hope no mate-
rial injury has becu occasioned. The IVlwats certainly
have been benefitted by such a check, for they were get-
ting much too forward ; insomuch that numbers of
farmers have heel obliged to mow off• the tops, to rev
their being laid by the first rain that antabt fall ; in
which case it is clear they-could cone to nothing ; and
whether cutting them will ultimately du any gond, re-
mains to be proved. Store Bullocks are selling very
high ; not s► Sheep, which come to market to meat
numbers. hut do not find !Alen ; they are lower by
many shillings a head.

The Artist? GENERAL Fund Sodely--This Society
held is. fifth ataniversary at the Yreeassasorie Tavern nn
Monday last. The Duke of Stissez presided over a
company as reipectabk as it could possibly be, and no-
thing but the importance of the debate in she Howe of
Commons could have prevented its being more tionie-
rout. The collection after dinner amounted to nearly
1000 f. Among the names we observed, the Earl of
Bridgewater, IU guineas; ine Marquis of Lansdowne.
25 guineas; the Earl of Aberdeen 10 guineas; Earl
Pomfret, WI.; the Lord Advocate Of Scotland, in gui-
neas; and UMW others. We stop not to notice the con-
viviality. the toasts, or the proceedings of the evening,
but hasten to advert to a touch more important feet ;
we mean the existence of another Society resembling
this closely in name, but essentially differing from it in.
the Artists' ttenevolent Fund, and
we shall conclude by simply irriittoig out the difference
between the two. The wilds of the latter are devoted
exclusively to the relief of its owe MeMilelll. or their
widows and orphans; while the funds of the Society,
whose fifth anniversary we hare now the pleasure to
record, are open to the demands of any artist in distress,
Of in case of his death. are willingly made applicable to
the relief of his widow or orphan.. The ditkreuce in
point of liberality needs not a single observation, and we
cannot do better than quote a few sentences from the
declaratiou of the the .Irtists' GENERAL Fend Society.
The Artists' licuirdent hind, estaWisltr.d qt IS lit,
is exclusively applied to the relief of the widow, and
et ph ails of a be in tit club, composed of a society 01.1 f WAS.
tinder the iianie of tin Juba Stock lured Nlaity
pta-
Irons of art, and artists, were induced ill subscribe to
this fund, tinder all imprrasiml. front its title, that they
contributed to an institution fur the relief of artlyta
gentrally.—The Artists' GENERAL Bentroleat
iouti6e I to iBl4, has no stick limitation ; on exeltei,te
belon; to any ; its tititol,ers con-
sist Gory Of benevolent fOihellibffS, Vflifilir of 1-, by
311 appeal to public liberality, to emend tel to all dis-
tressed artists, whose works arc known and esteemed by
the public. as weli as to their widow,' and nenhans
erit and distress form the best and only claim to its
benevolence.

Lord Lauderdale has, we understand, strenuously
urged an alteration of tLe Mint regulations, but
what has been done we do not know. If the rela-
tive prices of gold and silver were propounded in the
abstract, a man would certainly inti:r, that the silver
would drive the gold out of circulation : but wo
have the assertion of individuals possessing the ad-
vantage of personal experience, with sagacity and
exactness of observation, that the Mint regulations
have not and do not produce this acct.