The observance of the old custom of “_first fits_” upon New-year’s day is kept up at Falkirk with as much spirit as any where else. Both Old and New Style have their “_keepers_,” although many of the lower classes keep them in rather a “disorderly style.” Soon as the steeple clock strikes the ominous _twelve_, all is running, and bustle, and noise; _hot-pints_ in clear scoured copper kettles are seen in all directions, and a good noggin to the well-known toast, “A gude new year, and a merry han’sel Monday,” is exchanged among the people in the streets, as well as friends in the houses. On _han’sel Monday_ O. S. the numerous colliers in the neighbourhood of the town have a grand main of cocks; but there is nothing in these customs peculiar to the season. _Falkirk_, 1825. J. W. R. ANNUAL JOCULAR TENURE. The following are recorded particulars of a whimsical custom in Yorkshire, by which a right of _sheep-walk_ is held by the tenants of a manor:-- _Hutton Conyers, Com. York._ Near this town, which lies a few miles from Ripon, there is a large common, called _Hutton Conyers Moor_, whereof William Aislabie, esq. of Studley Royal, (lord of the manor of Hutton Conyers,) is lord of the soil, and on which there is a large _coney-warren_ belonging to the lord. The occupiers of messuages and cottages within the several towns of Hutton Conyers, Baldersby, Rainton, Dishforth, and Hewick, have right of estray for their sheep to certain limited boundaries on the common, and each township has a shepherd.