The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-23 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

ltlmbsTtAtr.—Within the last week the hops have improved
in such a manner us to surprise every I►udy. They certainly
do present as Avowable an appearance as the most sintr.-,ttitte
can wish. In some few grounds we have observed a trilling
degree of mould, but we must not expect so variable a plant
as the hop to bead perfection.
Hop growers in general, and particularly those whose
grounds are in the environs of Nlaidstbne, aid other large
towns, ate melt iujiucoll by prisons while passing tin Pugh
their grounds pluvking the st bunches of lu►ps. Persons
detected in the fart have endeavoured to excuse their con-
by say Ines that nut builds eau be of little value; bat it
is to be consklered, the some hundred of bunches taken by
individuals front one groom!, as is frequently Ilse ease this
season, ale a great loss to the µtauter. We are sensible that
the practice Eton,' ally arise; from tl ghtlesstiess, but we
think it our duty to :twice it, at the sante time observing, that
the Cain/ of oar bunch of hops is a misdemeanour, and
punishable ns such by law. It is the act of taking, not
the quantity taken, that defines the °deuce.

PRICES IN THZ BOROUGH.
BAGS, NEW/. POCKETS. NTIF.
.
Ke^t l5 0 to 18 14 Kent l9 oto 22 0
Sussex 15 o to 17 10 Suss= 18 0 10 YO 0
FaMilem ...... 0 oto A 0

Duty Xi!

The follov.ing 13 a copy of a :otter, addreasiti to the
Commissioners of Customs, dated Treasury Chambers, to
wai n English subjects embarking in the contest be.
tweets Spain and the South Americans ;

" Treasury Chambers, nth July.
" Gentlemen—The Lords Commissiooers of his Majesty's Trea-
sury. having received a communication from the Secretary of State fat
the Foreign Department, upon the subject!of the preparations mak.
ing at the differcnt out-ports, and at the port of London, for sending
out officers and men for the service of the Insurgent troops in the !va-
nish and American provinces ; their I.ordships desire you will direct
your officers employed at the diff;:rent ports to take measures to make
known to such persons as ha been engaged in this service, by any
Spanish American Agents, or others, that they are thereby mulcting
!hemselves obnoxious to the laws, as warned by his Royal Nigh-
nen'. Proclamation of the .27th November, tall • also that you will
adopt such other measures es may be Lest calculated- to prevent any
interruption of the strict neutrality ;Teelared by the Prince Regent to
he tile rul^ of his conduct in the contest between Spain anti her Insur-
gent provinces. (Signed) " OEO. HARRISON.'
" Co:mnissioners of Customs."

The object of the Society of Commerce and Navigation at
Amsterdam, which has ohta Med the approbation of the King
of the Netherlands, is as billows I. To purchase, equip,
arnt, if judged proper, to freight vessels, principally for the
enininerce and navigation of the East ; to which cad
these vessels shall be, in the whole or in part, furnished. a jib
the commodities a hich the wants of those countries shall re.
quire. Thecommeree of Africa, aid' the exception of the coasts
aitnated on the Nlediterranean, is not exeludeclfirisn this dis-
position.-2. To receive letters from the East ludies for the
administration of merchandise, effects, and fonds, as well at
commissions authotising partial advances on merchandise
itisnred, of which the ae kiwi% ledgements and pMicies 01
insurances shall remain in the hands of the liuciety, or on the
actual value of which it shall lie possessed."
From the 1115. Memoirs of Gen. Rapp, it is related, that
Napoleon had sometimes played •• fiygtel es," in Schoen-
brunti ; and having one night won a great deal, he slio di a
her of Napoleons-d'or in his hand, and said, •• rite Ger.•
notuis are very loud of those littk Napoleons, ate they not
Upon which Rapp ammeted very frankly, " More than of the
great one."
At half past five o'clock on There in'? afternoon the inhathi.
tatits between the abelisk„St.George's fields, and the Asyl ,
were thrown into great consternation by a ten ilic explosion
occasioned by the ignition of a large quetinty of gunpowder
and detonating combustibles, compounded Motility works, as
we are infoi flied, for Vauxhall Gardens. The explosion hap..
pined in a large work shop meaty at the end cf Mead Place.
used by Mr. McMin. artist in fire works. The first alarm
was produced by • Wan violent shock, which shuttered the
gloss in the houses cuntignons. A lea second• alter this a boy
mud three mrrreame out torn and blot Leese' by the explosion
in a shocking manner. They art e taken iseitandy to the
hospital: A second explnsimi blew oil' the roof. ands seene
was presented to the astonished specteeirs iicyond description.
Rockets, saltpetre, and a varie►y of file storks kept blazing
and bursting its 4 most slurp, isle!: The nom' woe k of
the buiidieg was in finite's, site' the diesel of being shot or
injored by rockets, which darted horizontally, kept the
spectators • considerable distatice from the burning pile.
A ' tat the distress of the scene, 811 unfortunate monkey
exhibited peen lia r misery. Tim ;menial had been grouted t
Ilse roof by a chain, and he was seen struggling to eireape
flout toe 7flqll ching 11 imes, until the timber on which he
stood beieg !IWO?, 111,01' I'llg into the devoin Mg element.
The shed -nti dr lied fortunately tram the row• ultema,ex iu
3lead 'Place. it 'ecteil a considerable distance towards
the roed, an w .happy to add. ilia t the damege,wiluthe
exception tolMrai glass, was contitted to the shed, wl ids
as burnt mike *mind. The 'ewe t made by thorxnl,sion
was beard a iong %stay from the spot. The houses iii the
le tub! . hoed were, she ken, and mons:mils of per suns ran
aitb let ror in I:toir looks to atseotteentlie ea lisq. f I lie street,
j The con flagratton was )4111'red to man out, :IA no person
eetiturc to go near the stied. The tire woo ks, of whisk
their was a large quantity in a chest, kept up a continued
On Tuesday night. 7w r Alderson, of Southampton-street, Cam-
berwell., was hutted sod robbed of a coid watch value 40
g041::::a. at Camberwell fair. The lame evening Mr. Cobin,
of Shorfistrect, WM:lister-reed, was roldMd gold chain,
and thaw seals, in fie vicinity cf tnc fain

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AUG 23

THE MANCHESTER SPINNERS.

The orrative spinners of this place are still at variance
with their own Interest. For the last '2B years they have en.
joyed ail nninterrupted state of prosperity, in almost constant
employment at superior wages to that of working classes ;
and «vermin the dreadfully depressed state of trade which dis.
tinguiihed the yea's !SIG and 1017, when thoniahrds of
weavers, &c were seffering the gleatest privations from the
want of employment. and unparalleled low wages, they were
still found happy and comfortable. The same happinem cow.
aimed, and they have v ohne drily relinquished it. It is true they
havesimited to tirspublic lbat they have not beee setfiejen tiy re.
ninnerated for their laimirs, and by their representations have
pemenaded other person* to think 80 ton ; but a oeference to
facts will convict them of extreme frilly, to cidi titt ir tern
out" by no harsher a name. It is well known, that when
workmen are paid by the quantity and quality of work dune,
that a disiierity in amount of their earnings mien result; but
an average amount pet hued will furnish sufficient data to
prove that their situation was not inch ate to jus7 if), the pru—
dence of the measui ex to which they have resorted. It ap.
pear• that- in the cotton-wills, from which the spinners have
t eed cd,-1 ha. men, on the average,. from the r math of Jornlaty
last to the inithile of Jane, when they left off !allow, rained
ward., of 31x. per week ; and that boys and girls who ere
spinners. earned, &wing that time, ape :nail of 173 per week,
clear of all charges and deductions whatiover.
From this statement, compared with the earnings of other
working classes, we cannot but think that tile spinners are
ateing matt inconsistently, and arc doing injustice to tb,le..
seises mud fainilim by the pc..tinacity ith tech they adhere
to a demand 0(411 increase tit' w ages ; even eitliotit adverting*
to the hiss sustained by their late etiseloyeri, whose mills are
at thiS imminent of Mile Isis expense to thein from time con.
tiamed interest of capital employed, in rent, insurance, con_
ducting servavits' salaries, the depreciation in the value of
machinery, which is regular nod pro4revsive whether in use
or nut ; and without colisideting Mae from Ilio%c causes, to
say nothing of more generous inutives, (he owner of a comet
mill is obliged to continue it at tot k, whin the man Let is in
such a stale that it is nut possible to sell with pralii, and some
times when sales cannot be made without au nasal loss.
Forty years ago, spinning was in the hands of a few women
and children.. The itigenuity of mechntsies. and the spit it and
enterprise of capitalists, IlaWe given. employment to thou-
sands of men; it is not fit that a inaunfatiory of such local
and national importence should be swept away by a combi-
nation, made in the face of an express statute, viz. that of the
30th mid 40th of Geo. II I. c. 196, sec. 5, by st hien it is en-
acted,

"That no person (whether employed as a journeyman or
workman in any manufacinre, trade or 'falsities+ or nut) shall,
at any lime after the passing of this Act, wilfully pay or she
any sum of money, as a subscription or contribution for the
purpose of payinl expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by
any person or persons acting contrary to the protrisions of lbir
Act, by payment of money, or other mess*, support or
maintain any jouroeyinan, workman, or other person,
or contribute towards his support or maintenance, fur
the purpose of inducing him to refuse to work or
to be hired or employed, in any manufacture, trade, or busi-
ness ; and any person who shall be guilty of any such offence
shall forfeit and lti.e any Vain not exceeding tiro suns of 101.;
and every journey Mil 11, workman, or clit,r person, who shall
collect or receive :thy wove) or valuable 11siii4 1;4. any of the
purposes aforesaid, An foifeit and lose any snot not eseerd..
ing the snot of ; such penalties of WI. mid respectively
to be forfeited, one moiety to His I%lajestys and the other
moiety to the informer mid the poor of the parish where such
/silence has liven committed, to he equally divided Loewe:ea
thelia."—/Ilauncatr- Herald.

The cotton-spinniux, which a good many muffin hu been
emnpa rat i ely flat, has acquired an ntremitmon activity within
these few weeks at Glasgow. About aix months' stock of
yarn, formerly on band, is now bought op, principally by
English merchants. This celerity of demand in the Glasgow
market is attributed to the general "strike" in Manchester
among the cotton-spinners. In Glasgow, cotton-spinners,
ho are s eddy and active, are makisig 1 31.10e. to 41. 10'.
a fortnight; but they have to pay a small sum for their piece'',
wages.
As a proof of the I.:tether increase of trade, the value of
exports from the port of Liverpool, between the slb of April
and the sth of July, Prig, t•acetols that of the corresponding
quarter of 1817 by mote than 0a4.1,0001.
Extensive serpentine veins and rocks of chromate of iron
have been Jtacoveretl in the Sheiland Islanda.--,Fruin this
several beairtifid and very durable pigment* are obtained,
which are valued in the arts. liithei to the market has been
supplied from North. America ; out tire a bmithince of it in
Shetland will now form a valuable export from that island. -
The Grand Jun y of the county of Cumberland have come
to termini' upon die necessity of having Spring Assizes for
the tear northern cutintiea.
HusseY's Courr.ssios.—ConsideraLle doubts are entertained
as to the (ain't-Loess of Ilitasey's statement. NIL Smith, tile magis-
trate of Greenwich. and other gentlemen, are still persevering in
endeavouring to ascertain the most correct Mann-Luton 'pop the
subject. On Wedne-day they employed some men in elearmg out
the pond near ‘'arisittares-place, Greenwich. in search for the t
which limn.), sal I he threw into the rand with the hammer, both et
which instruments he pretended to have been used by his. companicas
who entered Mr. Bird a home. The whole of the mud and dirt was
taken out of the pond in the presence of sevens police ofdeera.
but no 'millet or aapoarance of one WAS :mud. The Dow-stn :1 officers
and others who saw the mangle i bodies of Mr. Bird and his house-
keeper on their being washed from the stains of blond, allege that
the-e was every reason to believe that all the wounds on both of the
heti s had been inflicted by the same instrument, and the allures:don
or the wourihs resambled that which would lee p.oduced feats the
hammer. The confession states, that while one of II as ty's com-
panions were erneigad with the hoursteeper at the street door, the
other man broie his w.ty jam the bide door; whereas, mg Adkins
and Lavender, the how street officers, arriving there, in a short time
Idler rhe ;first-alarm, with all posale epecd, were of opinion thin
there had be4.n neither breaking in ncr cut of the house. It is said.
that Hussey a-signed a: the reason to the Pry. Mr. nudge, foe his
not making a full confesuon sooner, that he and Ida rreociutes fad
sworn such horrid oaths not to impeach each other, that he was
frightened even to repeat them, and the inquired of the Rev. Mr.
Nudge, if he thought lie should be forgiven hereafter if lie bteke
the moll lie had taken rot to divulge any thing respecting the trans.
:u• it it still suspected that the murderer gained admittance
into turd', house about nine o'clock. At six o'clock the sarne
evening it man knocked at the door, and the housekeeper put up the
chitin !aline also answered him.

Wednesday evening: the wall °font. of the blildings now pulling
down to make way tor the iniproveuients of Viimival's
down into Furnival'a Innconrt, and huriY.4 Revery.] children wl:o
were at play in the court. &vend were dug o•tt mach bruigcd ;
others in twit a state that they are am expeacd to LuTiee ; add
one poor child quite &ALL

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