The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-12 00:00:00

AtTGOST

PROVINCIALS.

Several naant,facturersflom Not tineltant and vi,-initv, driven
f. ant thcir bouies by the Luddites, are now settled at Tivertnn,
licre ttpvtl;k of Inn men and boy. are at tr"rk, prricaring
machinery for the ntantelacture of AtocLings, lace, 4%. .

Three narrow bolts, laden with the IA he-
loneing to Messrs. Heatheute and Boden, lately st t oil from
Loughborough, on their route 19 Stourrort, from whence the
river Severn and the ftrktol (lianni I atiord eaiy
enmmuui-
',tint' with Devomhire, tiro place of their ulti:nate de-tin:WA).
qev il or the workmen also ent'darked fur this new sl ttic.nient
ar haa,tl the saute vessels, and more are prtparing to follow
them.

We noderstand, that in Lanarkshire, Glamoreanshire, and
cater counties, the idoit of employing oleo hail-work, or two-
thirds work, has been act(4l upon with much advantage; that
is, for a mantiMeturer, or any other person employ lug labourers,
who tints he has only full employment for half or two-thirds or
the menber he formerly employed, to continue employing the
s number, but only at half-day wages or work, or two.
thirds; by which means, though the men will nut be all., to
two so much wages as firmerly, they will still not be totally
destitute, or thrown wit of habits of industry.
At the last rent-day, held at Northallerion, the Earl of (fare.
wood reduced the rentals of his numerous tenantry, from Li to
So per emit. It is also worthy of remark, his Lordship made a
return equal to the above for the last VS mullahs, to the great
relief ofhis tenants—an example worthy of imitation.
Lord Alarm p, on leaving town last week, for an absence of
sonic months, set au example in his domestic arraogements
am thy the imitation of est ry Nobleman and Gentleman w ho,
can afford it. His Lordship discharged uut a servant, but
allows them all board wages, directing them to go to his estates
in Northamptonshire and Yorkshire, where they are to be al
lowed milk, potatoes, &c. The stable boys and other menial
servants are to be sent to school, to be instructed at his Lord-
ship's expense, until he returns.
It appears that the Rev. Mr. Vachell has obtained a verdict
of upwards of seven hundred pounds, as compensation io da-
mages against the Hundred of Littleport, in the Isle of Ely,
fur the injury done to his property in the late riots.
Muus'iONe, Al G. 6.—The following observations upon the
plawations are made from an actual survey which took place
during the last week. In Sussex, where the land is cold, there
SS very much tire•Olast, and even the best grounds are much in-
jured by the SUM cause; also where the bind is in a growing
state much vermin and honey-dew are observed, and in sonic
places mould. The NVealil of Kent is in the same state as MS-
sex, and the remaining parts of the county exhibit h fire-
blust, mould, vermin, and honey-dew. wiliell leads to a con-
jecture that the crop will not exceed a-lth. of last year. In
many places the hop-;rounds have been laid completely under
water in conseqbenee of the continued heavy rains ; and where
this has berm the case, the button) leaves have turned yellow,
and fallen off. The NVorcester grout"' promises to pay rather
more than last year.

FATAL • PEOLiTßltNlSM.—Wednesday last, Mr. Graves,
aged 21, landlord of the Lamp Tavern, iu Bull-street, Birming-
ham, undertook, for a wager of 201. to go front that place to
Walsall and bark in null: hour., living altogether a distince
of 18 guiles). Oti his minim, and %viten about three miles short
of completing his task, and within 35 'Mimics of the time al-
lowed, he was unable to proceed any further. He was imme-
diately conveyed to the Handsworth tavern, and medical aid
was obtailtil. but to no effect ; he died in Thursday morning.
FATAL PUOILISM.—A few days since a hale young man, named
Aniniison, a collier, about 22 years of age, having been drinkieg for
some time at the Swan publie-house, in Lane-end, Stlffignlshire, with
a companion of a like description, a quarrel arose at a late iiour, and
the parties proceeded to fighting. In the conflict Ammi.ou received so
much injury. as, added to intoxication, reduced him to a helpless state,
in whic:t condition he was put into an outhouse or pigitye, and survived
but a short tinge.—The other was anninittial to Staftbrd Gaol for man-
slaughter.
livi g. EFFECT, OP BULL-BAITIso.—An Inquest %vas held on the
97th ult. at the Cot lan, in Darlington, near Totness, on the body of
W. Barnett; who, while attending u bull-bait, on the day of the racer,
received a wound in the breast from the infuriated animal, which
caused his death.—Verilici, That the said W. Barnett came by his
death by means of a wound received from the horn of a bull. _ _

A few days since. G. Allen, a small fanner at Shropharn, who had
fbr some time past been in a low exsponaing state of mind, wits found
drowned in a pit near his own house. One of his sons, who lived with
him, and had long watched his father with great care and tenderness,
and had been at work that morning in a field near the pit where his
father was found, was at the same time missing ; and. as no tidings
could be given of him, some apprehensions were at length ems rtained
by his fnends, that he might have seen his father in the act of going
into the water, and in attempting to save him, have loot his own lite
:dm ; and on examining the field where he had been at work, they per-
ceived the Motmarko of it.person who had apparently been running in
the direahm of the pit in question : dti. determined them to search,
when they found the laoly of the son near the spot where just before
the father had been taken out.

On Tuesday, T. Greenaway. ogler at the Saracen's llmad„ Wineies-
ter fell backwards into a cauldron of boiling wort, and was so shock-
ingly scalded as to preclude say hopes of recovery.
Thws lay se'nnight, as Mr. Fry, formerly of Canterbury, was going
at-roes Barham-downs, he was stopped near Bridge-hill by three men,
dressed in dark jackets. trowsers, and dark cmps: one of them seized
the homes howls; another struck Mr. F. a viol !nt blow with a blud-
geon, and the third dragged him froas the chaise, andorcsenting
viol loaded with slugs at his h,ad proceeded to rob him of a rod mu-
ns:o pocket-book, containing Battle of I :agland and country notes to
the amount of its. and a bill of exchange tar KA. tug. lid. as well
his watch, &e. with which they male MI. A pistol loaded with four
slugs has since been found rear the spot.
A low days since. as Mr. Iltitskes, of Hull, gum-msker. accompanied
by Ifs wire and another female, were walking across a close between
Messrs. Eggintons' Gnicnland-yard, and the Barmstem Drain Bank,
nets that town, with :mem to attend the funeral of Capt. Wikien, of
the Cato, they were run at by two cows. Mrs. Hawkes was attacked
by some of mem, alai thrown down, and in that situation the beast
gored her in several parts of the laaly, &c. Every tamale (Iron was
made by Mr. H. to extricate his wife from the dreadful death with
which she soenual threatened; but ineffectually, until a perwin who had
wimcssed tile slamming transaction came to their relief, and a ith a whip
drove off the infuriated animal; but Mrs. llawkes received so much
injury as to occasion her friends some fear for her recovery.
A boy wai drowned a few days since in the White Loch, in the
parish of Carnwath, Scotland. lie was herding .settle near the Loch,
and waded in beyond his depth. A number of women were IA halal
bleaching and tried to We the boy, by wading into time water in a
row. holding by each other, but found it impus,ible to mach him;
tad belom sufficient assistance could be got, he had been half an hour
under water, and was ,ierfectly gone.

On the rtli tilt. at Strathareadalo, Sutherlandshire, a child about
in months till, !king left in its cradle in a house alone, a ,ow entered,
pulled the child out, and mutilatod it in a most shocking manner.
'filen: are hopes, however, of its recovery.—The sow wa.. inuitodiately

On Friday last, as Mr. W. cankwell, miller, of Bolton, near
Enworth, in the bile of Ely, 70 years of age, was trimming his
awes mill sails, he fell front the top, sod was killed on the spot.