The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-08 00:00:00

r. REGISTER.

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PROruNcu LS.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER.

The wheats upon the ground, on all well-drained land,, look
particularly ;
.the early sown, luxurient. In all the !treat wheat
counties, the quantity 2111W11 is fully equal to that of the two last
seasons, probably the most extensive ever before sow o in Great
Britain. Rye, tares, and the cattle crops, have aln altt,'. a .11 limns
rient appearance ; the latter sown turnips have greary ,taproved
with the mild and showery weather. Considerable bre& or early
turnips which had failed, were previously broken up, the land
sown with wheat. Early beans and peas for marke t. in the London
rti.t, lets, ve had a tine seed seasonond much of them ;:boie ground.
The expectation is general, that sheep and cattle ',oil wtll he shot t
in the snliug, and hay is likely to be dear. The late ieport front
Norfolk, of the insalubrity for cows, of that most • xuberaot root
called mangel-wurzel, or :he root of scarcity, i- oniver,aliy slighted
throughout the coontry. Lean cattle have iler.inot iu piice. but
butcher's meat in the metropolis has lately advaneed, but is not
expected to maintain its present price.

A few days since, as Mr. John llawkes of Anal!:ltton, wa. going
to Shift':tall, near Leeds, to pay in his asses,td taxe,. of %%loch be is
tin collector, he was attacked on the road between M filanev's
lodge and Upton-common, by two footpads, t ;n, aft,- bAsiog
lently assaulted him, cot off pat t of bis left tam, and To. hi'o of
the taxes, in bills, to the amount of tlBll.

Saturday sennight as Mary Mnlalion, alias Armstrong, corfined in
Chester House of Correction. for robbery, contrived to make her
escape over the Prison wall, in which she was aided by another
female prisoner. She had procured a mop and broom, and having
strongly spliced them together. contrived to raise herself to the top
of the wall next to the Infirmary, and let herself down by the same
means. As soon as she was missed, search was made in every
direction, and she was taken the same night, in a lodging-leave at
Netherton, where she had concealed herself makr the bed. She
was brought back on Sunday morning, and w sorely confined. She
is an old offender, and is n ported to have bruictli ,out of two other
prisons.

HIGHWAY ROBBErt Y.—On Friday evening Tait, as Stapley tt
respectable farmer, residing at Speldhurst, was going home from
market on horseback, he was stopped uv two footpads between
Sevenoaks and Tunbridge, who knocked him Of hi, 6.nrse, and beat
him in a ernel manner; they then rifled his pockets of about 101. atop
mounting his horse. rode away, leaving him him nearly insensible
in the road.

SUOCK
.1 NG ACCIDENT.—A most melancholy occurrence happened
in Bandon. on Sunday se'nnight. It.being Christmas Day, the Ro-
man Catholic Chapel was unusually crowded with persons at early
sary.ce, when an alarm was given that the galley). was giving way ;
tie greatest consternation and r (infusion ensued ; lumber. were seen
leaping from the gallery into the aisle, and from the windo‘vs into
the street, by which many were severely injured and hruised, and in
the crush in coming out of the house, six persona were unfortunately
killed, and upward* of thirty desperatel!, hurt What renders this
ciremustance•mnst melancholy is, there being no eanse for the alarm,
kut the falling of one of the Caller), forms The chapel millet ed ma-
terial injury by the bi caking of windows, doors, railings, &c.—(Cork
Paper).

In the dreadful storm of Saturday fortnight, a vessel calif d the.
Conception, bound front Dublin to Wexford, WM driven wino e, and
wrecked at Ballynefear, near Wexford harbour. The crew took
their boat, and, with the exception of one man drowned, reached
the shore ; but they left behind them, &stem, in the weather
shrowds, a mother and danghter, over whom the sea beat furiously,
and eyery moment threatened to tear them from this their last
refoge. A poor fisherman, named William Hanson, saw from the
shore their dreadful situation ; he collected some of the boldest of
his fellows. who. with infinite difficulty, rowed him towards the
wreck. now lying on her side. and consequently the mast along the
titulary of the sta. On the utmost point of the mast tae fastened
himself, and from thence clambered to the body of the vessel.. !fere
a new difficulty arose—the eentest between the mother and daughter,
which should first attempt to land ; nor was it ended till dicir
gallant deliverer assured them that he wout4 return for her mlro
should remain. He first brought to the shore the mother, and,
scarcely waking to take breath, returned for the daughter, whom WI.
'af4rwstrdsititrough the tremendous surge, lauded iu sakty.