Saturday 21 Nov 1818 (p. 3, col. 1-3) On the receipt of the news of Her Majesty's death in this City, on Thursday afternoon, the great bell of the Cathedral was tolled during the space of an hour; and the flag at the Castle was immediately hoisted half-stall high, in which position it still continues. It is now observed that the beggars in this City begin to infest people's doors more and more every week. We hope that the inhabitants have not already forgotten the Vagrant Office, where, if they were invariably sent, their claims would be investigated, and their wants, if real, would be relieved. There is no cruelty in this-it is a public duty. It is remarked, also, that since the institution of the Vagrant Office, children are more numerously sent about, because, we presume, those who send them are conscious that they themselves could not stand the test of an examination.-We speak here of regularly-trained and sturdy beggars, who make a trade of tricks and falsehoods. There are many weak and aged residents in the City and neighbourhood, well-known to housekeepers, who deservedly meet with occasional aid, and who are known to want it. We hope this kindness will not be withdrawn;-for such the Vagrant Office was not instituted. Lister ELLIS, Esq. of Croft Head, has this year made an experiment of dibbling wheat. Independently of a reasonable expectation of a more favourable crop, and the regularity of the work, there is a great saving, we understand, both in seed, and in the labour of cutting. The field has now a most beautiful appearance: and we hope that at the end of the year, we shall be enabled to lay before the public the results of the experiment. The agricultural and commercial enterprise of the County of Cumberland, at the present moment, is highly honourable to it. It's reward goes with it. Penrith Savings Bank.-This institution had, in its commencement in August last, to struggle with misconception and much misrepresentation, but the experience of its usefulness has triumphed over all opposition, and silenced every whisper to its prejudice; insomuch that since the opening of the Bank to the present day, (a period of only three months), there have been deposited sums amounting to eight hundred and fifty-three pounds. A plan is now in agitation among the principal tradesmen in Penrith, the object of which is to light the town and the shops of such as choose to become proprietors or subscribers, with Gas, on the same scale as at Liverpool. SHERIFFS.-The following gentlemen have been nominated for Sheriffs for 1819:- Cumberland.-Thomas SALKELD, of Carlisle, Esq.; W. LAWSON, of Brayton House, Esq.; J. MARSHALL, of Hallstead, Esq. Northumberland.-W. ORD, of Nunnery Kirk, Esq.; R. W. GRAY, of Backworth House, Esq.; W. CLARKE, of Bentworth House, Esq. Yorkshire.-W. WRIGHTSON, of Cusworth, Esq.; H. VANSITTART, of Kirk Leatham, Esq.; J. FULLERTON, of Thryberg, Esq. Cheshire.-J. S. BARRY, of Marbury, Esq.; W. FOX, of Lymm, Esq.; J. F. FRANCE, of Bostock, Esq. The following curious production is the literal copy of an original letter, addressed by a pauper to the Whitehaven Magistrates during the last month:- "To the Magstrats of Wthoven. "This is to Sirtfi that Jain RUSALL is Linen verey ill she has had a Mis Carig and Henre JAXENN is the farther and the instegashin of Jain RUESELLs Mis Carig by ill uisig on friday Nieght betwixt the owr of Nin and ten in the night. Jain RUSALL has No Sorport and is Ling in a stat of Starvin For want of evvre nessere She beggs Justic and for your Prosperity she will ever Pray.-Peters Court Malboray Stret No 2." In consequence of frequent disputes arising between masters and servants relative to the terms on which they were hired, and the difficulty of adjusting such differences, a Magistrate strongly recommends, that farmers at hirings should reduce the terms to writing; and sign in the presence of a respectable witness, or at least, that, if the agreement is verbal, they should conclude it in the presence of a respectable witness, who may be called upon in case of future misunderstanding. An occurrence of a very melancholy nature took place at the village of Crosby-Ravensworth, near Appleby, on the evening of Thursday the 5th of November, which has deprived an affectionate wife of a loving husband, and several small children of an indulgent father. A person of the name of Michael WILLAN, a husbandman, resident in the neighbourhood of Crosby-Ravensworth, was, with many others, at a public house in that village on the above evening, and being for some time extremely troublesome to the rest of the company, the landlord insisted upon his being put out of the house; and, with the assistance of Mr. John HEWERTSON, of Crosby-hall, was in the act of doing so, when WILLAN struck HEWERTSON a violent blow behind the ear, which brought him to the ground, to all appearance a lifeless corpse: he revived a little on being taken into the open air, and was immediately carried to his own house which was not far distant, where in a few hours afterwards he expired! On examination it appeared that a blood-vessel had been burst in the head which was the immediate cause of his death. A Coroner's Inquest was held the following day before R. S. STEPHENSON, Esq. Coroner, and a respectable Jury, when a verdict of Manslaughter was returned against WILLAN. The Friends, DAWSON, of Workington, bound from Liverpool to St. Andrew's, in America, was proceeding through the North Channel on the 14th ult. when a heavy gale of wind came on from the S.S.W. The next day, at 5 p.m. in lat. 57. long. 16. 30. a heavy sea struck the vessel, which carried away the fore-yard and shifted the ballast. All hands were called, and had cut away the main-topmast, in hopes of bringing the vessel to wear, when another tremendous sea struck her, which swept away Captain DAWSON, together with the foremast, the boats, and the bulwark fore and aft. It was utterly impossible to render any assistance to the unfortunate Captain. The mate and crew, with long and great labour, succeeded in getting the ballast trimmed, and the vessel so far righted as to enable them to reach Stromness on the 30th. The extraordinary mildness of the weather, considering the season, still continues. The fields in this neighbourhood are dressed in green as though spring were advancing; flowers are everywhere in bloom, and almost every garden contains some instance of vegetation out of season. A great number of examples of this kind have been transmitted to us, which we cannot find room to insert: we give place below to a few of the most remarkable. The Thermometer on Thursday was at 59. A perfect ear of Barley was brought to our Office last evening, which grew in an Inclosure on Warnell Fell (where there is a considerable quantity), belonging to Mrs. OLIVER, of Park-Head. It is the produce of grain dropped at the time of harvest. Such is the mildness of the season, that violets were gathered on Monday last at Cumwhitton. Mr. John CORLETT, searcher and surveyor of the Customs at Derbyhaven, Isle of Man, was drowned on the 1st inst. but his body was not found till the 12th. On Tuesday se'nnight, Messrs. John and Lancelot YOUNGHUSBAND, two brothers, well advanced in years, and the respectable occupants of Heckley and High House Farms, on the Alnwick Abbey Estate, adjacent to Alnwick, were both found dead, under the following shocking circumstances:-About 9 o'clock in the morning, one of them entered a field on the farm in which the other was superintending a ploughman, and waving his hand, beckoned him to follow. The latter immediately left the ploughman, and the brothers went off together into the fields remote from observation: at noon some surprise was excited among the domestics that they had not returned to dinner, but it was concluded some incident might have detained them. Dusk approaching, the servants set out in quest of them. In a retired part of the farm they discovered one of the brothers lying on his back in a ditch, with his throat cut, and a razor near him; and the other at a little distance in the same ditch, but upon his knees, leaning with his breast upon the bank, with his throat also cut, and another razor beside him. Both bodies were cold and inanimate, and there was no appearance of struggle or robbery. The watch of one was lying on the ground, as if the fatal moment had been minuted.-Such evidence of premeditation came out on the Coroner's inquest, as to induce the Jury to return a verdict of Felo de se.