The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-16 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

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The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge has appointed two eon-
gregatiuns on Friday the teeth inst. for the usual degree of Mas-
ter of Arts, as the following Saturday and Monday will be
appropriated to the ceremony of the installation of the Chan-
cellor, and the conferring various honorary decrees.
AGRICULTURE.—By accounts from different parts of the
,country, we learn that the hay-harvest has generally commenced,
and that the crops are very heavy. In the inland counties the
wheat is remarkably fine, znul exhibits the most favourable -.Lp-
pearance of an abundant crop. Other sorts of grain arc also
promising; but warm weather is much wanted. The hop-crops
are, in general, luxuriant and healthy. Some sorts of apples and
pears have been cut off, but other descriptions are tolerably plen-
tiful; and it is the general opiuiun, that a great deal of cider and
perry will be made.
One of the miscreants concerned in the late poisoning of the
race horses, at Newmarket, where he had been employed as an
under-groom, was apprehended on Wednesday last, at Bristol.
He went by one of the stage-coaches to the White Hart in that
city, meanly disguised, and enquired his way to Pill. In half
an hour after two of the Bow-street Officers arrived at the coach-
office, and bring informed of his destination, seized him of
board a vessel, with a portmantua, containing better apparel
than what he wore, and marked with auother name. They ,
hroneht him back to the White Hart, and collet ycd hi:n to town
in a ell:tie...and four. It iz supposed he has been impeached by
a man who is in custody on the same account.
During the awful thunder storm which oecurred on Saturday
afternoon, a barn, part of the -I:remises of Mr. Peplett, of Pur-
high, Essex, was set on lire by the lightning, and con,,uniest,,
• tog. timer with a quantity of corn contained therein, and :deo a
cow -house adjoin i ilg.
The following is an account of a late dreadful storm at Kirke
Ireton, etc. in Derbyshire. :" About two ()heed: on SondaT,
the leth of May, dark eloeds collected in the South, NVith ats
appearance of thunder; about three, thunder was heard at a
dis:ancc, and upon its nearer -approach :deem four it was accom-
I pateed with a heavy fall of rain and hail stones of an immense
size, some measuring six and seven ioches in circumference ;
this was succeeded !my a tornado, epperently proceedirg from
the junction of two currents el cloth, one from the S. E. the
other from the S. W. which comic, in cceietct a little
to the Southward of Kills-Ireton assumed the form of
one large and circular cloud, which ininstdively began
to whirl round - whim ircreeible swiftness, and with a
treteeedoue roaring noise re senaing- that of a waterfall.
The lower part of this ciond then became elongated,
and retainieg the same weerl.ng inetion, darted down
continually upon the earth with great violence, the destructive
iee'erts of which were soon vi • ;ige : for in the space of two mi-
nt': ei the whole village of Nitlt-Ireton preseuted a scene of
complete ruin ; the street was filled web teateh, ,iles, slates,
and fragments of timber; most el the loesee, barns, and out-
buildings were um (mice, ;est! p:rsy totatly tle•Owo clown; win-
dows buns in, or nee eof te:c glass broker; corn and hay-stacks
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wet e car tied up and d isle :std ; the lead which coye red the cen-
t, tre part cf the church WAS carried into an adjoining field, and
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i one piece weiebieg hell a tan was a lenst 7e yereli distant ; the
1 lead upnn the side aisle wai thrown agniest the wall of the centre
i I part and turned over the parepet.
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