Persons desirous of preventing Depredations upon their Crops of Turnips, may take this Sussex Threat as a Specimen.—In a Field by the road-side, near the Holmwood Common, between Horsham and Dorking, is set up a Board with the following Inscription:

Who so Ever

Is Fond stilling

Turners In this Ground

Will be perse

Cuted as the Law Directs

But it is not in Sussex only, that curious Notices are to be found, the Information beneath, appeared on a Board, over the Door of a House in the Borough.

"I Jon Wake carrys out letters, parcels in caarts, or on horses backs, and I goes with myself or else I sends my wife, so as how they be sure to be safe.-Gardenang jobes dun by day or yeer, and wall fruit brote forth, as may be seen within. Terms must be menshuned, as I never goes from my wurds, so none need apply who cannot ansur this descripshon.Cats meet, dogs meet, fowls, and pastry, and othour eatables, and lickers of all kinds, as I

have licence for these things neate as reported.

“N.B. I sells nothing on Monday morn ings, as I does not return to town till the afternoon."

And upon a House, occupied by Father and Son, (the former a Blacksmith and Publican, the latter a Barber,) near BRIDGEWATER, in Somersetshire, is a Board, expressing as follows:-" BARNES and Son, Blacksmith and Barber's work done here, horseshoing and shaving, locks mended, and hare curling, bleeding, teeth drawing, and all furriery work. All sorts of Spiratus lickers akording to the late comical trety. Take notis my wife keeps skool and lays folkes as you shall, teaches reeding and writing and other langwethes, and has a sist aunts if required to teach horritory, sowing the mathew maticks, and all other fashionable divershons."

We will here give a further Sample of Town and Country Epistolary Intelligence.―The following is the Transcript of a Letter actually sent to the Mistress of a Boardingschool, near Town, by the Father of one of

the Female boarders:—“ As I ad a good heddication myself, I am hintirely ashamed for to see wat manor that Lucey his bitt by the Buggs, and it is my desire for hur to sleep in the bedd that she alway do, and not for to sleep sum time in wun and then in annuther, for to feed all the buggs in the ouse, for I think that be not right; neither shal she do it. So I remane, yures, &c." And a respectable Druggist at Blackburn received the following curious Epistle :-" Will you Send me help for Babey That is 9 weeks of age it is Greatley fulfild with a Cough and if it Please your honour Sir Will you Right it down how it must Be-taken."

In NORFOLK, an almost countless Scope of Abilities, collected in one Human Being, is thus modestly exhibited in Verse, in Barrack Street, in the City of Norwich.

House painting-rags and pickings bought-
Hogs killed and hornpipe dancing taught—
Small beer-and GODFREY'S Cordial-yeast
Sold here and teeth with ease displac'd.
The Itch-and something more in fashion-
Both cured without examination.

Corns cut-kibes cured-shoes made with list

And leather breeches clean'd and dress'd

Bricklaying jobs-and bleeding done-
By MARSHALL PURLAND, No. 1.

And in a Village of the same County, one Man fills such a Variety of Employments, and so whimsically heaped upon him, as may be a Pattern to other Districts, and materially curtail the Expenditure of Parish FEASTING, as in his own Person are concentered, the Offices of-Church-warden, Overseer, Parish-clerk, Constable, Surveyor of the Highways, Assessor of the Land-tax and assessed Taxes, and of the Property-tax, Collector of the same, and Bailiff of the Manor. This Man has not been selected to discharge these important Duties, for his personal Qualifications, or for the Extent of his Property; as he unfortunately has but one Arm, and though the only Tradesman in the Parish, is a Pauper, and receives Relief.

The NORFOLK Agriculturists, content themselves with the Crops of BARLEY produced after Turnips, and have no reason to complain of the Distinction shown by Heaven, to another part of our Island, in a Supply of this, Article. By a Letter from Mr. THOMAS DoD, of Shrewsbury, we have an Account,

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that on the fourth of this Instant May, there fell in the Night-time a great Shower, which, by the Noise, was supposed to be Hail; but in the Morning, there was found a considerable Quantity of Grain like BARLEY, of which the Gentleman has reserved some Handfuls. And Yesterday a Gentleman near ST. JAMES'S, received several Grains thereof, which were sent him in a Letter from the said Place." The above Shower of Grain, rests upon the Authority of Mr. LANGLEY CURTISS, who asserts it occurred, in 1681. Those adventurous Mortals, who think proper to inhabit the Bases of Volcanic Mountains, are frequently indulged with Showers of ignited Stones, and Lava of sulphureous Vapours, Water, Tufa, &c. &c. but the happy BRITON, remote from the Freaks of these eternal Fires, receives from his benignant Skies, Plum-pudding Stones, and Grain. Those who wish to hear more of the Fall of the Plum-pudding Stones, are referred to the recent Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine.

The Phænomenon of STONES falling from the SKIES, or at least some superior Region, occurred more recently in the Vicinity of Wold Newton, in Yorkshire, the Place where

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