The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-08 00:00:00

MONTH/. Y AGRICULTUR.II, REPORT.

The long contintiance of a warm, genial, and, in its happy
effects, tiernal season, has universally than:tett the appearance
of the country, and neat ly put an cud to all solicitude on the
score of winter provision. The quantity of after-grass is not
only far beyond ordinary years. but of far better and more
nourishing gnahty, partaking, in a considerable degree, of the
nature of spring glass; whence it is to be lulled, that it will
have no tendency to cause the rot in sheep, as has been up.
prehended • on the contrary, it may be expected to forward
cattle of all i:in& so materially, that good Chi istinas dinners
may be expected by all those who have money to purchase
them. Even the poorest grass•latitis have produced all nei•
common after-crap, and the (inanity anti make of the rowers
upon the best is highly satisfactory. The finishing cut of
lucerne, in Kent, so little cultivated elsewhere, and insuf-
ficiently there, hiss been wonderful. Of seeds, the reports
are nut so favourable. The pally sown turnips ale improved
to the utmost possitile deg cc ; those sown in the ant
are equally fortunate. bin no great expeetions can ever be
realized from latter sown roots. Swedes are scarce, and in
general the turnip runs too touch to top, and the present is
not the season for twenty-pumiders. The price of bay is
necessarily reduced. Tin:nips and potatoes may be probably
estimated at threcluarters of a crop, the latter being made
tip to the demands by importation. The quality of potatoes
indifferent ; the latter ours, hard. Fodder will be scarce in
the winter, and toots ought to be economized, iu contempla-
tion of continued frost, which may leave the improvident
cattle-keeper in great shahs. heat must inevitably, be
dear in the spring, our can there be so many cattle stalled as
usual. By letters from the Bishopric of Durham, perhaps
the most backward part of England, with respect to the corm
harvest, wheat was abroad, uncut, on the 30th tilt. Gleaning
has (seen somewhat too good this sear, from the dryness tit
the grain. Harvest neat ly finished throlighout Scotland, and
plenty of corn, but the oats do not yield to expectation. On
the crops genet ally, calculators have been somewhat too
sangoine, as seems to be indicated by the state of the markets.
winds might have been alarmingly high hail the ports closed
earlier. Wheat-sowing is finished in the best and forward
districts, the clays won king like gat den moulds in ;in admirable
style for the drill, which is annually increasing on English ex-
perience.

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They write from all quarters, that the greatest breadfir of
wheat-seed, and of tilt tines qii.ality, has, and will be pill ill
this year, that has been known duticw die preceding twenty.
row the state of the hinds, die weather. and the happy
scarcity of insectile Iteriiiin, it:i which the late drought and
the hung' y vermin-killers made !Mei& hayed:, 1.4 ei y groin lias
vegetated; and, as it may tarn out, those enitivatois, who
hypoiketically over-stick their lands with seed-core, will have
110 mason to congratulate themselves on their practice. The
wheat came tip in sr viii and era dots, and is of a deep healthy
green and very 111Xut iant. Front the high price of coriofood,
hogs are very dear and seater ; stores in sufficient plenty.—
/ wan cattle aim Aar" bear a 21.011 pi jet., and eWI:6 fur breed-
ins arc in particular sequest in the north.

On Saturday sennight a large hamper, well paekod and corded,
with a card of direction, unknowing the carriage and porterage to be
paid, was brought by a porter to the house of Mr. Hurst, a wholesale
egg merchant, on Saffron-hill, who, on laying down his load, Fait!,
it was by a coach ton the country, an then went about his busine.ss.
Mr. Horst, h•-•ing anxioto to know what sort of a present he had un-
cape: redly receivet;, proc.eded to unconl the hamper ; when, on lift-
ing up the hd. to ins great surprise he found a tine female child.
about Mice week:, of I. w:th a nice lace cap, and otherwise well dress-
ed. lying fast asleep. closely piadted all round whit bay and straw.-.-
He scoot for a enosllthlc, to whom he delivered it, and it w.u. cart iqd
to St. Andrew's wo:kh•ou,e, wilco; it now is, And in a ;Madly &WC.

THE NATrONAT. itECNTrIt

BANK 1:01?GE1eIPS.

We extract tho following curious details from the
poNtseript to a pamphlet, just published by Mr. C. W.
Williams

Tito following eiretimstaitces have occurred in my own
person, mid, twang strongly dins, ranee of the neees.ity of
:alteration anal amendment Bark notes, al well all colat.
SiVe of the COPlCindti‘miness of fallihilti y on the part of the
Batik in distinguishing between genuitie and forged notes, I
cannot omit ineetionieg them here.
" flaw ling found 20111 e difficulty in passing a one pound note
whieli was somessloa torn, though by no weans defaced or
obscured, I took it to the Kaiak to -et it exchanged. Not only
the net e, but myself, were conned liver in a i narncr not vets
agreeable ii a public office. After eon daleroble delay, and e);-
woiontion by several clerks and their severs! inspectors, 1
was desired to take it to the " one and two pound note office."
lYe there underwent a' forthor scrutiny by two clerks, who
appeared somewhat embarrassed as to their proceediug.
was informed. "it cuadd nut be examined immediately, atill
wonlal take some tow," and asked if I was in a hurry I
inaraired :f it were a good or a bad note? Some unimportant
Maser vat iolia were made touching the data., which Was alleged
to be rattier obactared. I observed, I had nothing to do with
that, or whet might be necessary after I was guar. 'lice clerk
said that aomething was necessary—that he meat examine
if that nantber was written of." I 'gain added, I laud no right
to be delayed ota such ground ; the only question in which I
Was concerned being, wait a good or a bud note ? It Was IlaW •
ever in vain. I then begged he would do what was needful,
observine, that it had already engaged late a considerible time;
_lie politely Apologized, out it was necessary. He returned
in ten minutes, having written on the note " Gth May, 1816,"
and his initials, desiring me to take it to the person who sent
n. there, and he would exchaege it. I dial so, and was again
examined and delayed, and even reateired to write nay name and
address on the note. Finally, after having been sent front one
clerk to another, until I had passed the ordeal of four clerks,
with their four assistams, I received a new note ha exadiange.
The whale occupied thirty. five minutes by the Batik clock.
"'file note here alledeal to being an old note, stone justiti•
ration might perhaps he urged. In Bre following, however,
even this plea was taken away :—.
" Some days after, being desirana of exchanging a ten
pound note for small ones, with the view of being sectired at
least in this ease from forgeries, 1 atepped into the Bank, not
collate' wing it would be but a moment's affair, the note being
quite new. One clerk (cashier) received it, examieed it by a
table whirl) hung up at his side, and which appeared to be a
list of numbers, with corresponding dates, or perhaps a list
of the 'lumbers anal dates of ascertained forgeries. At all
events, ateappeal was made to thi, table. This clerk tore off
the aignature, anal bawled it. to his inspector, who also exa.
mined it ; and having decided in his own mited on its genuine-
ness, wrote his initials in red ink across the note. It was
then returned, anal I was IleSi• eat to co lower down. There I
waited a consigeralele time, as it is necessary in Ciaija, as the
phrase is, that is, call out tote's torn to be served. I was
here required to endorse any name anal address ; this was
really too match; the note was new; I obset veal it was
payable to bearer. I declined. I was not positive as
to the person front whom I had received it. I gave nay name,
but dial ten wish to he a espounble beyond the possession.—
'file clerk was somewhat otfeinled, and obierveil list if Ilse
note was any own, why should I refuse to plat my name on it ?
I asked if he would undertake not to come on me should the
note turn out forged hereafter? He said that w 55 impossible.
The inspector had said it was geuitine, did I not see he had
marked it ? I observed it might be forged, as in the rase of
Mr. Hammond. He expressed his ignorance of that case,
mid treated the matter as false. I retired and went to Mr.
Hammond, in Bishupsgate-street. Mr. Hammond thenelit I
might have put my name on it, as their only waject was to
prevent ft out. I asked was it title, as lie land stated, that
•ffie clerk and inspector endeavoured to recover the value of
the 101. fingery taken Irani him, even asserting that the
former would loose his situation, if it were not repaid ? Mr.
Hammond said yes, but that he Was not so absurd as to pay
it, and never did. I returned to the Malik, mentioned the
fact. again requested payment, oat the specific grounds that I
deans 110 t positive whether I land received the note of my
banker or not: and that it would save me the 'ramble of
going to the west end of the town ; or oat an uaiderstatailine
tuft to re-demand payment if it proved a forgery. " My good
Sir," said the clerk, '6 you are giving yonasell a great deal if
mineresaary trouble." I begged to say, I wis the best judge
of the degree of risk I chose to run. Filially, I was obliged
to ancertana if it had been actually received from my banker,
.and who, having made himself responsible to me, I en-
dorsed tee and the following day it was exchanged
at the Bank. The delay anal inconvenience was truly alls•
tressilig. Many persons in the office eallibited dissatisfac-
tion ;at the manner they were 41110 inconvenieneed. Impatience
aid it titalion were indeed loudly expressed by minty .
Let the reader who has not experienced it imagine what a
tax upon time, what an expense, even to the Bank, what u
g nankin's alienation of putilit. feeling ! Let the Diteetors
examine this department; let Bleat go incogoito. and judge
for themselves.' 'flans the simple exchange of a note, re-
quiting the examination col so tunny ks—the agetecy of so
'Hatay inspectors—the scrutiuy of another office—the appeal
to the ledgers—the loss of 110 Wadi time—and above alt, the
ultimate indecision on the part of the Bank, and the taint
remaining on the note, to-the embarrassment of the holder,
who, perhaps, in the interval loafer his seem ity. tav
eases, in the Bank of Ireland, Would not have occupied the
time one would take to cress the office. Them as man goes
nut of Ilia way to have his note exchanged at the Bank ; but
here 4

" In Ireland the bearer is requested to-put his signature on
notes above the value of twenty pounds, not as a right, but to
Save the public in the event ot• a loss or rubbery. The pre •
caution is well understood by the imbibe, as being useful to
them, and complied with; but, where a refusal is made,
which sometimes oveurs, and which may even be justifiable
privateon and persOilai aIutIMIS7 no, observation follows.
'•'l•he above proves —first, the &Laically of ascertaining the
r.•nuiueness of the note, even in the Hank, and with the co:'
lateral aids of private marks; secondly, uin• necessity of the
fallible teat of a duplicate nmsiber not Navin_ heel) already
paid ; thirdly, the fact or a 'boob, Gill hawzi•ite ou the gnu•
Menus% of a note, and the continued responsibility, even after
payment by the Bank ; fourthly, the great inconv salience and
di lay sustained by the public.

" }fete is the' perfection of the machinery,' as Sir
31'Intosii observed, by which the Hank protect their unit
intei est to the neg•ect of (he public.
"Two observati (((( s ma) he here added;—First, that the
Oink are inaalt,lai Oil t,.c sig", tit e iu an in.

payteile t t bearcr ; attd, seeondl ; lit ;hey tt f
that they are although thi,, elerk w.a uffeude.l. b, •
rause I acted 011 it N4'11:41117 21.1 este of liti Lwn
66 ()Ii !reform it altogether."

C. W. W.

Front the LONDON O.I.ZE7"I'E, Tuesday, Not'. 3.
BANKRUPTCY SC PEPSEDET).
R,tvEa; C. aLtl CHET tL t: all null 1). illn.Nurwicii,wine-merchants.
BAN KIVJPTii

Tar.noT W. George-yard.ibard-street, merchant, Nov. 7, 17,
Hee. 15, Rt guildhall. Att. Richardson, Clement's-lane.
I.oinbard.street.
FAWCETT George-yard, Lombard-street. paper-hanger, Nov. 7,
17, Dee. at Guildhall. AU. Mr. Hunter, Millman-arrest.
adtbrd-row.
YATES .1. E. Shoretlitch, peVerer. Nov. 10,17. Dec. IS, at Gui W...
hall. Att. Mr. Cartwright, Mend street llal.
WARREN W. Fenchureli-,:reef, victualler, No•/. 10, 17, Dee. 15.
at GuildhaiL Am. Aldridge and Co. Lincoln's Ina Nev..

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square.
MILEs 11. New Bond Street, linendraper, Nov. 14, 421, Dee. tS.
at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Dawson, Saville-place, Borlington-,tr. .
OAkI.EY T. I'. Ealing. brewer, Nov. 7. 17, Dec. 15, at Guditi.dh.
AU. Mr. Vinemt, Beilford-strect, Ileitford-square,
EMERY I'. Worcester, wine-merchaat. Nov. 10, 20. Dee. Is, at
Worcester. Atts. Cardale and Co. Holborn-court, Cray's Inn.
BRAYLEY J. W. Nottingham, laco mannfacturer. Nov. 17,
Dec. 13, at Netting am. Atts. Baxter and en. Gray's Irn place.
Aar min .1. Red Lint Street, Bullion, cabinet tra'ter„ Nnv. to,
17. Dec. 15, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Jeyea, Charlotte Street,.
Fitzroy Sqaare.
DAY R. 11. Tovil, Kent, seed-cruslier. Nov. 14. 21, Dec. Li, at
Guildhall. Atts NViltshire and Co. Old Broad Street.
Inivisr R. Stapleton, Cumberland, grocer, Nov. 12, 13, Dec 15, at
Carlisb. Att. Mr. Clennell, Staple Inn.
HAMPTON T. Manchester, merchant, Nov. 25, 26, Dec. 13, at
Maneiester. AU. Mr. Windie, Holborn Court, Gray's Inn.
SYDER G. Homertm, dealer, Nov. 10, 28, Dec. 15, at Guildhall.
Atts. Sandys and Co . Crune Court, Fleet Street.
Wittx F.UROOK \V. Hun?erford Street, Strand, victualler, Nov. to,
17, Doc. 15, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Pasmore, Warnford Court,
Throginortua Street.

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