The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ItEGISTPII.

Thu Duke of Kent put the question ; observing, that
it was impossible the chair could submit a propositiou whit:►
conveyed a compliment to itself.
The quention w•as carried by a great show of bawls.

The Resolution. carried I were :
1. That there do at this moment exist a stagnation of employment.
and a revulsion of trade, letply aff..-aing the situation of many putts of
the community, and prxitteing many instances of great local diitreas.
4. 'Fitat from the experienced itzneraiity of the British nation, it
ntay Vr confidently expected that those who are able to alnutl the means
of rdicf to their fellow.othjeets will contri'ettu their utmeat endeavours
to remedy, or allexiatz. the sufferings of those who are particularly dis-
tre.sed.

S. That although it be obviously imiwissible for any association of
individuals to att:nyt the general relief of difficulties affecting so large
pmportion of the public, yet that it has been proved by the experi-
ence of this association, that nowt important and eaten dye benefits may
be derived from thew-op:ration awl curreipondence of a soziay in the
inctmirrlia, encouraging the efforts of those benevolent individual., who
may be disposed to associate themselves in different districts fur the re-
lief of their several mighboarhoods.
4. That a subscription be immediately opened. awl contributions
generally solicited, fur carrying into effect the objects of this assoeia-
tion.

[The Meeting was nnmerous and respectable; and we most
sinetrely regret 'hat am political topic was introduced on the
occasion ; 4%, however just it might be, it had a tendency to di-
vert from the immediate purpose of the Convocation. We have
no room tardier to observe at present, titan that a stsbseription
was immediately opened ; at the bead of which is our ii uvtri.
ons Regent with a princely donation of 5001. followed by the
Queen, Dukes of York and Camhtidge, 3001. each ; and in a
short time near 10,0091. were subscribed in aid of the laudable
purposes of the Meeting.]

Though the present distresses ore too deeply rooted to be
remedied by mere temporary expedients, yet it is the duty of
all to alleviate, as far as they can, the sufferings they cannot
cure. One Correspondent stater, that on the disuse of shoe-
buckles for shoe-strings many hundreds of buckle-makers were
thrown out of employ ; and by the adoption of covered, instead
of metal buttons, many hundreds of button-makers were de.
priced of their daily bread: be observes, that if these two
branches of ltirminghant manufacture were again introduced
by the Nobility and Gentry of the kingdom, much good might
result from it. From another source we learn, that a plan has
been adopted of employing doubt.• the number of labourers, by
a greater subdivision of labour. A plan of the kind NM been
adopted by the market-gardeners to the westward of the me-
tropolis, which is highly praise-worthy, and we mention it that
it may excite imitation. 'I lie late inclement weather prevented
Them from employing in their grounds, or in carrying the pro-
duce to market, the great numbers of labouring poor, chiefly
females, who annually visit them from distant comities. Many
of these industrious creatures must have starved, or taken to
vicious courses, if their ease had not been taken into consider*.
thin. It was therefore agreed, that sorb employment as there
was in the grounds should he equally divided 411101Ig them, and
that they should work only on alternate days, The private
families in the neighbourhood co-operated in this plan, by giv-
ing household work in the intermediate days to such as were
then unemployed. The plan has succeeded perfectly; and now
that the season has become rather more favourable, the indivi-
duals in question arc no longer burthensotue to the neighbour-
hood, for they have resumed their usual employment in the
fields. Much might also be done, according to another writer,
to give employment to the poor, and produce an abundance of
food during tl:e ensuMg winter, if lauded proprietors, great
and small, from the possessor of thousands of acres, down
to the owner of a mere cabbage-garden, would sedulously
cultivate every patch of ground now• waste o• useless, and
plant cabbages, turnips, carrots, ant potatoes, for the winter,
on such spots ; and if an inclement winter should succeed, an
ample fund for distributiou will thus be provided at a small ex-
pellee.

Extract from Suggestions for producing Public Improve-
ments, and atiording employment to the Labouring Poor, by
Mr. M. Phillips:—" Grateful as the country will feel for the
Subset iptions that will be raised fur the assistance of the Poor,
it is hoped such measures will be recommended to the atten-
tion of the Legislature as may place the lower orders in a situa-
tion that will enable them to support themselves. The Landed
Proprietors have now an opportunity, as wavy new arrange-
ments must he made, of letting their lands in small farms, vs kb
a covenant in the lease for a plot sufficient to keep a cow to he
allowed to the labouriug cottager. No language can anffici-
ently state tl.e blessings to the community fr small farm+, or
the evils that are felt where they have been mouopolized.; farm
after farm has been added together, so that England is now be-
come a nation of starving beggars, exhibiting at each vestry
the most pitiable and heart-broken objects. In many instances,
within an hour's walk of a parish church, there were formerly
front all to 100 happy families—the little farniers—initastri-
ouslv employed in producing not only the common articles of
sustenance, but abundance of the comforts aflife. Every cot-
tager's child had it+ dish of milk, of which the hungry babes
are now robbed. %What is become of those happy useful fami-
lies, that so regularly, neatly, and piously assembled every
Sunday at their parish churches ?—the good people who sup-
plied the markets, the towns, and the villages, with such int-
mom" quantities of butter and cheese, pigs and poultry, and
made the land to overflow with milk and honey ? Alas! driven
from their little kingdom, these once happy people, the has.
band, the wife, the sons, the daughters, are learled into misery,
wretchedness, and want. The distresses of the poor are greatly
increased by Of waste, or, in better words, common.
which afforded great assistance to the surrounding cot-
tiers. The taking away these privileges %VHS like taking front
them a table furnished with provisions. To have kept them
away from parish support, crainba at least should have beefs
thrown before them--a trifling piece et. NW should have been
allotted to each cottage.—(lieu ES snoer.o me EX-
TEN min.—lf England had three tine's its number of inhabi-
tants, every city, town, and populous place might have an
abundant and cheap supply of another species of food, namely,
Ft sit, from an inexhaustible store; and thousands, and tens of
'log.11,41111; of hands belonging to mid cuimected with the Fish-
eries, would find eniplos uncut. Every place in the country
should have an interest in promoting our Fisheries—
" Oh Cod ! thou dolt prepare,
Thmagh earths, the sea, and air,
A bounteous Hill of Fare."
Some thousands of work Men may be employed for a time in the
ovement of roads, eacavatiug hills, and upon the
dilita cut harbours.'

PROVINCIALS.

AUGUST 5.

DISTRESSES IN THE COUNTRY.

The most melancholy and distressing steromits are received
of the situation of the 'Miaowing classev in Staffordshire, thrown
out of employ by the decline of the coal and iron trades ; 117
families in the township of Mon alolle art without food, ex-
cepting what is riven by the baud of charity. In five pari.hes,
15.000 arc out of employment! though reduced to starvation,
they are yet patient and limiest In the midst of their fah:sings.
Extract of a letter train Colicky, near Bilston, July 16:—

6* My heart bleeds for the poor helpless children, pale as death,
crawling about like walking skeletons—to recite the sufferings of Mild.
viduals.world fin a volume. A fele days ago. a woman Yetl.4 found
about IA yards from my brother's house; she had a young child in
her artist exhausted by Hunger, and unable to pnweed, she was hand
on the ground, with the child at her breast, in a ses.sele..a, and, to
every appearance, in a dying condition; she however revived, and wa
admit/Ist:red such food rs we confider:A most suitable for her. When
she could speak, she told us her husband hal got no work; that she
had several children at Tonne, to whom she had given all she could
heg the two preceding days; that she hail bad nothing during that
time, and had famished herself sooner than they should tlie for want
she had walked to where she was found, and being unable to proceed
farther. had resigned herself to her fate, and would have perished for
want within a littk more than a mile front her home, had we not hap-
petted to have found her."

The commercial embarrassments of the West Riding of York-
shire were last week aggravated by the stoppage of another
banking-house. On Tuesday 11Icssrs. Brook and Sons of Iluil-
derstield, aft( r struggling for about three arils with extreme
difficulties, arising out of the shork given to public credit by
the stoppage of a neighbouring bank, were obliged to suspend
their pay Int lit%.

The Chipping Norton Bank of Messrs. Cnrgan, Matthews,
and Co. has for the present suspended its p.i)inetits. The
.iniworth Bunk, Paget and Co. has also stoppt d payment.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY.

The long continuance of cold rainy weather through the
mouth will have retarded the harvest to a later season than al-
most ever known ; and in the more northern districts the tem-
peidnotis weather has considerably laid the several kinds of
luxuriant grain. The Wheat crops, however, carry, in gene-
ral, a promising appearance, although there is some apprehen-
sion in the eastern counties of mildew, from the unusual suc-
culence of the straw, which more warm and genial weather, it
is hoped, may correct. The Bat leys are fine in most counties.
Oats, in general, arc not so good. The Beans, which are too
full of growth, are not found to set so well as their bloom pro-
mised. Potatoes, except on light soils, have run too much to
haulm for a very productive crop. Turnips are a genial plant,
but want drier weather fur setting out. The voting Clover;
have planted kindly. The }'allows oo heavy soils are back-
ward, from their wet state not admitting of being cased about.
The Clover crops, with other Hay, have suffered in most coun-
ties front the incessant rains, and, in consequence, the produce
(Whist year is rising considerably in value. In some districts,
large tracts of meadow land are still umnowed. The Hop
plantations never varied more in their appearance than at this
season. Some of them round Canterbury, Maidstone, and
Farnham, look promising, except where they have run too strong
to Line. In Worcestershire the general appearance is unkindly.
The latter math Grass is abundant, and the price of Lean
Stock, of most kinds, has got up in con-equenee. The Meat
Markets remain nearly at last insinth's prices; and in those of
Wool there is but little variation fur the better.

END or THE WOALD.—Among the numerous absurdities
that have appeared on this subject, not the least ludicrous i%
one that has come forward at Flambro, in Yorkshire. A person
bad a cow, who was delivered of a calf, which, on its entrance
into the world that was to terminate so shortly, immediately ut-
tered the following/surliest/observation :
A very hard Winter,
A very cold Spring;
A_plentiful llarveat,
But few to gm it in.
Oa which the owner of the calf was so much astonished ta
well he might be at this extraordinary poet), that he (hopped
down dead immediately ; but, what is still more extraordinary,
the people in the cuuntrs give, credit to it.
IloAnnEas or SILVEII.—The wife of a person at Monmouth
was lately thrown into consternation, on being informed that
the silver in general acid:slim) was mostly of a spurious na-
ture, and would not be taken at the ;Mint in exchange for the
new coin : the tar of a great loss induced her to communicate
a secret she had long kept, that by saving anti 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 MI. in silver, althongh both had frequently
been unwilling to accommodate their custoutets with change,
expressing, in loud terms, their wonder what was gone with all
the silver, anti their apprehensions that, like the gold, it would
never return again. There ace instances of servants also, who.
linable to gt t gold, and tearful of keeping the bankers' notes,
have got all their little savings in silver.—eonaty Paper.
A person in Alston. who has for some years followed the
trade of a barber, recently opened a spirit shop; when, to the
1:1/ ?•!11411 admiration and amusement of his at:plaint:ince, he
hoisted over his door the following appropriate lines ;
Rove net from pole to pole ; but here turn in,