The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-04 00:00:00

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The commercial embarrassint nts of' the West Riding of York.
shire were last *A evk aggravated by the stoppage of another
banking-house. On Tuesday Messrs. Brook and Sons of Hud-
dersfield, after struggling thr about three weeks with extreme
difficulties, arising out of the shock gist n to public credit by
the stoppage of a neighbouring bank, were obliged to suspend
their payments.
The Chipping Norton Bank of Alessi's. Curran, Matthews,
and Co. has for the present suspended its payments. The
Tamworth Bank, Paget anel Co. has a!sa stopped payment.
END OF THE WORLD.—Among the numerous abscrilities
Vial have appeared on this subject. not the least ludicrous is
one that has come forward at Flambro, in Yorkshire. A person
had a cow, who was delivered of a calf, which, on its entrance
into the world that was to terminate so shortly, innuediately ut-
tered the folio% iii poefirofoliservation :
A very• hard Winter.
A very cold Spring.;
A plentiful Harveta.
Butler/ to gat it in.
On which the owner of the calf was so much astoeisbed (as
well be might be at this extraordinary poet), that be dropped
.down dead immediately ; but, what is still more extraordinary•,
the people In the country give credit to it.
HOARDERS OF Si Lynn. —The wife of a person at Monmouth
was lately thrown into consternation, on being informed that
the silver in general circulation was mostly of a spurious na-
ture, and would not be taken at the Mint in exchange for the
new coin : the fear of a great loss induced her to eammunicate
a secret she had long kept, that by saving and hoarding of
shillings she had accumulated to the amount of 3001. A shop-
keeper and neighbour of the former found also, upon the like
report, upwards of 1001 in silver, althongh both had frequently
been unwilling to accommodate their customers with chi:age,
expressing, in kind terms, their wonder what was gone with all
the silver, and their apprehensions that, like the gold, it would
never return again. There are instanccsof servants also, who.
unable to get gold, and fearful of keeping the bankers' notes,
have got all their little savings in silver.—County Paper.

A person in Alston. who boo for some years followed the
trade of a barber, recently opened a spirit shop ; when, to the
no small admiration and amusement of his acquaintance, he
imisted over his door the followintt appropriate lines
Rove not from pole to pole; but here turn in,
Where nought cxr-ls the shaving, bet Me gilt.

A Manchc•trr Paper says—" Last wrek, as the story giw,
a couple of friends called at the pablie-linu3e of Mr. t raderi,:
Blockly; and, whilst regaling themselves, a dog belongine
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one of them came sitade:dy in-, and dropped at In; master's h
• bundle, containing a quantity of Itank-notes. Both instantly
stooped to take it ups but the owner of the dug failed iu getting
possession of it, and the other, securing it, pleads the title of
!setter fortune to justify his Maim to detention ; wLilet the other
wiserts his right, from the agency of his dumb sit ward. and has
already made it the subject of legal enquiry. Rumour has
swelled the amount of the notes to 13001. ; sid, whit is singular,
Ito person, in the quality au% tier, bas yet conic los ward to set-
tle the dispute."

VAGRANTS.A few flays ago about thirty of tine people, of both
e: Yes, reperly equipped to excite compsasitn. were Pik. n-up at Sear.
horotr• , in their road to Scorner Fair, where they intended to commit
their epredations on the credulity of the public. Wiwn they were ta-
ken br the constable, they wt re found regaling on tea anti cities, and
had ordered a tiv.vuity of lamb for their suppers. instead, however, of
being able to enjoy all the luxuries which their extre nee ineuerty made
)le...est:try, they were committed by the Magistrates of Sciubonne.th to
the House of correction, where they were detained until the lair at
&Amer was concluded, and were thus very properly Invented from
sit: Nixing their tmils; or the rubl4

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