79 
through the fpirited condu& of the juftices, 
have been lately advertifed in the Leeds pa- . 
pers, as being conviéted of having in their 
pofleffion ,falfe weights, or unequal - ba- 
lances. - ‘ 
It appears that the late Mr. Thomas Han- 
hy, of London, merchant, by his will, bearing 
date January 12, 1782, gave the intereft of 
Socol. three per cent. confolidated bank annui- 
ties tothe matter, wardens, &c. of the company 
of cutlers of Hallamhhire, todifpofe of the clear 
yearly dividends of 5oool. (part of the faid 
Scoel.) for the benefit of poor houfekeeperts, 
refident in the parifh of Sheffield, of the age 
of fifty or upwards, as far as the dividends 
would extend, torelieve, two-thirds men and 
one-third women, with one blue-cloth coat 
or cloak, one black hat, and twenty fhillings 
in money, to each fuch poor man and woman. 
The greater part of the refidue was difpofed 
of for maintaining, educating, and cloathing 
"as many poor boys and girls, in the charity 
_ {chook of Sheffield, as the faid refidue of the 
dividends would extend to maintain, &c. 
Population of the Townfhip and Parifh of Ha-. 
ifax.——Halifax 3336 ; Skircoats 23333 South- 
owrak 3128 ; Raiftrick 20535 Fixby 346; 
Eliand in Greetland 33855 Staniland, includ- 
ing Old Lindley 18005; Norland 11313 Bar- 
kifland 1799; Rithworth 960 ; Soyland 1333; 
Sowerby 42753 Warley 3546; Midgley 
¥209 3 Wadfworth 2803; Heptonftall 2983 ; 
Erringden 13143 Stansfield 4768 ; Langfield 
11703; Ovenden 45133; Northowram 4837.5 
Shelf 1306; Hopperholme cum Brighoufe 
2879 3—total 63,134. In 1764, by a ftate- 
ment then taken, the inhabitants amounted 
to only 41,1353 there is, therefore, an in- 
creafe of 22119, in the courfe of feventeen 
years. The number of females exceeds that 
of the males by 2358. 
Population of Barnfley—Males 1791; fe- 
males 1815 ;—total 3606. 
Since the commencement of the York Fe- 
male Friendly Society, inftituted in 1778, 
for the benefit of the young women educated 
in the Grey Coat and Spinning Schools, there 
has been diftributed among the members in 
ficknefs, the fum of 161}. and in addition to 
that fum, from a feparate fund, fupported fole- 
ly by the fubfcription of honorary members, 
the fum of 127]. has been diftributed, as re- 
wards for good conduét, in prefents for fune- 
rals, and relief in cafes of peculiar diftrefs, 
towards which the general -fand could not 
apply. It appears further that a fund was ef- 
tablifhed in November, 1300, for allowing, 
by accumulation, fmall annuities to fuch of 
the members of the above fociety as may live 
to arrive at old age. 
The royal affent’ has been lately given by 
<commiffion to an att for paving, cleanfing, 
lighting, watching, and otherwife improving 
and regulating the ftreets, {quares, lanes, and 
other public paflages and places within the 
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[Aug. ts 
parith of Sculcoates, adjoining to Hull; and 
for removing and preventing nuifances, an- 
noyances, encroachments, and obftruétions ; 
and for licenfing and regulating hackney- 
coaches, chairs, porters, coal-carriers, and 
water-cafriers, trucks, carts. and other car- 
riages within the faid parifh. The royal af- 
fent has been alfo given to ana& for enabling 
Charlotta Bethell, widow, to make and main- 
tain a navigable canal from the river Hull, 
at a point in the parifh of Leven, near the 
boundary between Efke and Leven Carrs, in 
the Eaft Riding, to Leven Bridge, inthe faid 
Riding. 
A correfpondent of the Leeds Mercury en- 
deavours to point out toits agricultural readers, 
the many and very great advantages of the 
early mowing of grafs, which, he remarks, 
are unhappily noticed but by few,—urging, 
that if grafs ftands till it is ripe, all the vir- 
tue goes into the feed, and the hay is then 
little betterthan ftraw. On the contrary, it 
grafs is cut in due time, when the fap is 
equally diftributed from bottom to top, and 
before it all gets to the top, then we have 
the whole virtue of the herb, and the end 
will be effeQtually, anfwered, both with re 
{pe& to cows kept for milking, in producing 
much and excellent milk; and for horfes, as . 
the hay cut in June is to them at once both - 
hay and corn. The objeétion about the bulk 
or quantity, and letting hay ftand in order to 
increafe its weight, he attempts to remove, 
by adducing a well-known fa&, that cows or 
horfes will not eat clean up-hay mown on the 
2oth of July ; whereas, of what is mown be~ 
fore June is over, they will literally gather 
up the fragments, that nothing will be loft. 
—To this, he adds the lofs in the /pirituous 
part; likewife bringing into the account, 
the very great damage by lofs of fog, &c. 
On the whole, he recommends mowing grafs 
by the 2cth, or, in backward feafons, by the 
end of June, wherever the ground is in tole. 
rable condition ; but where the land is poor, 
and the occupier has neither money, fkill, 
nor induftry to improve it, it will doubtlefs 
require fome longer time. j 
A three-fhear wether fheep was lately exe 
hibited to a great concourfe of people in York 
Market, which was efteemed the greateft phe- 
nomenon of the kind ever feen, both for 
fymmetry and fatnefs. The above extraordi- 
nary animal, when alive, weighed arf. ; 
when killed and dreffed, the fore-quarters 
weighed 49 lb. each; and the full weight of 
the four quarters was 182lb. He was fed 
by Mr. Kirby, of Catton; was remarkably 
fmall boned, and was thought, by the heft 
judges, to have carried more mutton for his 
bone, than any fheep ever produced in this 
- county. 
The committee of the_meeting eftablifhed 
_at Driffield, for encouraging the breed of 
Sheep and caitle, in the Eaft Riding, have an- 
nanced 
