The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR APRIL

The last meth and the early part of the present I,
have been particularly ficvourable, as a sued seam, for
the various crops ; the cold and drought, however sue-
ceeding, have retarded the businets upon binding clays,
the cultivators of which are waiting fir warm showers,
with the aisistanco of which the rowing of spring corn
would be speedily and happily eompleated. Of the ap-
pearance of the wheat generally, the reports are far from
thvourable ; those sown at the regular autumnal season
are said to wear the worst aspect, being thinly planted,
yellow, and sickly, ;;neatly injured by the wire-worm
and slug, to such a degree in some parts, that the re-
mains have been phuglied up, and the laud re.sown
with barley. On light and sandy soils where wheat has
been risked, the roots have been laid bare, and great
part of the plants destroyed, by the driving winds.—
Wheat on fallow has universally succeeded best, as must
ever be the ease in mild winters ; the roots and foul tUth
of clover leys and bean etches forming a most prolific
hot-bed for vermin of es ery ,:escription. The present
breadth of wheat is said to be gse.ater than in any former
year ; with respect to spring wheat. such is unques-
tionably the ease. The spring-sows autumnal wheats
look as favourably as can be expected in so cold and
droughty a season, and want nothing but warmth and
showers; the cane may be said of spring core and
pulse. Hops exhibit a strong and healthy bine ; in
warns situations, quite luxuriant. 1 t was supposed some
weeks since, that the ',Dung shoots or tendrils of the
hop-plant were injured by the slug—and uncommon oc-
currence. The fruit-trees and gardens have sustained
considerable damage from the cold winds and severe
nights. Turnips have failed some time since, the
Swedish excepted, of which a sufficient quantity is not
cultivated.

ACCIDEN'TS, OFFENCES, 4c. •

A few days since. Capt.STeWart; of Beverley, had it num-
ber of silk er spoons stolen, %imposed to have been thine by
some one entering Bre house during the momentary abweice
of the family from that part of it. A talt genteel Woking
111811 in Mack, the same slay, walked very deltueratety into
Sir W. l'enityman's, but encountering sir William kitaself at
his entrance, enquired if another person did not reside there
and apolo..;izril tor his mistake. A person of a similar des-
cription also mitered Dr. lierkeley's house, and uss met by
a servant, and excused bleu>cii touter the like pretested.
Several ps rsons have &leen apprehended at Market Har
sun suspiciuu of having purchased a consideraith
quantity id lace of the pour manufacturers in the vintinity,
and for it with forged mites of the Bank of England.
A miller, named Ittrption. caber resided at Olar'dis, has been
emimittcti to liodmiu gaol, fur mixing white sand witi
ti .111%
Out Tnesday afternoon, a ttentlimian, apparently betwee•
10 and 70 years of mat , was discovered by one of the BriLdi
ou fishermen in the act of drowiiiiig himself; but oil per
eciving Bali, approaching to It.,1•111.! Aug, 111` orew front It •
meket a knife, st Oil which he instantly put a period to hr
,•xistence, by statibiog It i 000 self in the Mt oat, vt hieh /o.!ver•
wooed divided the jogoilar vein. Air. Coleman, maven, 01
it. James's-street, aad another medical gentleman, were ini
mediately scut for; but before they could reach the dreadful

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s,av, life was extinct. It has not yet been discovered who
was. He is a short stout man, and apparently a French-
min.
at inlay an Inquest was held at the Rose Tavern, Great
Rissel.st reel, Bermondsey, before C. Jefrnelt, Esq. Coroner
f r Surrey, upon the body of Jane Spencer. The deceased
loved servant in the family of Mr. Williams, tanner, at Her.
mondsey, and about a fortnight previous to her death, sheep.
p-..red to be lit A low and desitondiug state of mind. It was
n marked by the other servants, and %lien they inquired the
rause of ha.r unhappiness, she always answered them very is.
coherently. Tuesday moaning last she did not go to her work
as usual ; one of the other servants went to her chamber, and
fond her lying on the bed with her clothes covered all over
with blood, her throat being ant in a dreadful manner from
ear to ear. On lifting the bode up, her master's resor, with
Willa h she had perpetrated the fatal act, was found ander her.
t medical Gentleman was called in, who sewed up the
wound, nut she survived only a few isiontes.—Verdiet—La-
ti are.
The most active and unremitting onetime have bees set
en toot by the Magistrates of York, for the discovery of the
persons who rubbed the Stamp Office at that place, ns men-
toned in a former Paper. One of them was taken et Selby
tar Sallie afternoon, within ten minutes after his arrival. A
second was apprehended at Hall, iu the act of landing from
the steam packet t and a third was taken in bed at Hull the
same evening. Search was made in every plate where there
was a possioility of any prareirry bring deposited. On Sue.
Jay the church-yard of Pafford was examined, and an open....
tug a tombstone, some middies and bridles, stolen on the 2.irtb
of 3larela last from Mr. Jones of Fulford, were discovered;
and under an adjoining tombstone was band, a large quentity
of cloth, of the value of 1001. the property eta hawker,
stoleu front the Fleece Inn, in Ferment, on the 11114 of Fe.
briars fast. These discoveries having tended to streng.bei •
the probability that one of those depositories, which have
been hitherto considered sacred, might in the present kb-
stance have been 'iced for the concealment of freed, Moeda,
mid Tuesday were employed in searching variants chards.
yards et York, and within two miles arouud , and attest Awe
°thick on the latter Jay, the whole of the stamps, tied np is
parcels wok handkerchiefs, were discovered under a tomb.
stone, tu the church-yard of St. Cuthbert, Peasebohn-grese,
and were immediately conveyed to the Mansion House, in
that city. The valve of the stamps stolen from the **tee was,
at first, estiinated to be 00001.; bet on the reanalaing stock
rra
being taken, we understand it roves to be upwards of 1111001. The stamps are me Capable of ins identifies' as those stolen,
except so far as they may agree desuininatioo and amount ;
but one of the wt uppers luclusing a parcel of stamps belonged ,
Ara the office ; and we madentand that a bundle of Papa%
belonging to Mr. biewsteed, aunt seine depositions is Black
barn's trial. fur transposition of stamps, which bed bee*
peeked up by the thieves, along with the stamps, in the hurry .
of their removal, and were found under the same tqmiastoise, •
will prevent say possibility of doubt upon this subject. • *

LONDON CLERGY. •
The famine case, published by the Lciadon Clews
t?
will best explain the nature of the ditpute bargee*
them and their parishionors :
" 1.3 y very ancient custom the Lambe clergy, over and
shove personal tithes, were emitted to receive on Suridapu,.
as I holyddys. Awe the weepier& of the houses in ifieir re-
spective parishes, certain oblations is proportion to the rests, ,•
which at one time were settled by arbitration sad cunaellta r•
ss. it in die poud, and were, after subsequent (Initiate ,
litigation, finally established by 37. H. VIII. at 2s. eel. in the
pound ; the saute being understood to be a compensation, not • 1,
Otis for oblations, but also fur personal tithes.
" Such was the legal claim of the London Clergy wise.
the dreadful fire in 1614 laid the greater part of the city is . •
ashes, burning down or damaging 83 parish churches. '
" Jo applying a remedy to this grievous calamity, the le •
-
gislatitre of that day enacted, that tbirty•fonr of those
churches should not be rebuilt, but that the parishes to which' . •
they belonged should be united to others; and, by a 'Wade.
rent net, they fixed the maintenance of the ministers of die
fit y-fine churches which were restored, at certain specific
511.113, 1.1 be assessed and levied by an equal pound rate as
the houses in the respective parishes.
" Whilst, however, the reel en of those parishes wave thus
restrained to specific sums. in lieu of their tithes, the rectors ,
and inspropr•atorit in (hose parishes in thrtity of London.
which remained unifijiteed, were left in full possession of
their ancient right to Ss. 9ri in the pound , and so were ins-
peopeinters in those parishes which were beret by the tire;
subject, nevertheless, to the eperation of a proviso in the set
of 37 itenry VIII. by which their demand was limited to the
twits reserved cloying the lean of the rebuilding leases.
" The 1131'11 PUMA appointed by 2.2eand 23el Charles If.
which the' Clergy at that time, in their petition to Parliament,
stated to be a slender and inetnansetrnt maintenance, had con-
tinued for trprards Cl sae hundred and thirty years, (a pe- •
nod morer thim doable the term of rebuilding leases, entitled
&in the fire of London), when their successors, finding it al-
together inadequate, applied to Para:anent for an amendment
of that act, and succeeded to a certain extent, by obtaining as
increase of the old specific su as ; increase which, in the
progress of that bill, was admitted to be insafficieot, and a
hope held out, that some future Parliament would more im-
prove the situation of the clergy: With the augmentation then
granted, there are only seven livings above three hundred „
pounds, the highest of' which, In eonst•gatence of the union of
two opst•cnt parishes, since the tire net, is 3661. Lie. 4d. ;
whilst nineteen were fixed at no mote limo 2001. It is but too
apparent that the...sums are an incompetent maintenance for
an incumbent in the metropolis, even as a single min ; and
It more, if be boa to support the dignity of leis character
with a family. But this the cleigy need not urge : for thefr
present application is no, grotinded on this insufficieniy, but
on the equity of reclining to them, in sonic degree, their nst-
(lent rights, which it cannot be imagined that Parliament,
when it afforded a temporary relief' to the then distressed
state of the city of Loudon, could hare meant to extinguish
for ever.
" Though, therefore, not more than thirteen years have
elapsed since the last applicatiou, the London Classy feel
theateelvee ender the necessity of at,ein petitiening
Paulun-
nent for relief. They have made diltigent inquiry into the
value. of the tithes in their respective polishes, and are fully
prepared it show that, he raisang the lowest 1101123 to 4ttul.
and the highest to 670. parliament will not impose a rate of
more than eleven pence in the p•it std, an.l in many cases is
such less, on the fair rents ut' the teatse..
" The clergy, thrill.; to, trait amt, in requesting to be
restored to sue third onl of unit mac,ent claim, they sham
have shown themselves not end. 'erring of the lovotiralske
consideration of the Legishititre."
• " Sion College, Feb. 1317."