The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

„,fir '” 11ARVEST.--.MARKETS. LEWES, SEPT. 13.—We last week expressed oar ars, from the operations of the Barometer, that there , mold he more unsettled weather to impede the pro - t resit of the important business of Harvest, and the 'ain which followed, proved that our fears were not il'•founded. The mischief of the showers, however, were in a great degree ccunteracted by the drying winds which prevailed at intervals, as appeared by the many wheat stacks that were formed in the course of l the week, and we are told, in a condition that left no thing to be apprehended from deterioration. We should hope, therefore, that the reports of extensive injury which have gone abroad and given such a rapid lift to the markets, will, in the end, be found to savour more of fallacy than of truth. Green-headed shocks and matted ears, would indeed alarm us ; but a such things not a whisper, •nor do we now expect to bear of any, as there is a fair prospect of fairer weather. The Barley in some situations. has partially vegetated, but not that we have heard of, in a manner that is likely to produce any serious consequences. Limns. SEPT. 15.—The harvest weather is very precarious in Yorkshire, but welosve had two tolera bly favourable days during the present week. The injury done to the corn in this neighbourhood is not yet irreparable. A great proportion of it remains to be cut, and though it is in some places much laid by the heavy rains, this is by no means the general state of the crops. We have already commenced upon the too common practice of raising delusive expecta tions, by Battering pictures on the eve of harvest, but we see no adequate cause for that despondent feeling which has, is ine week, added 10s. a quarter to the price of wheat. We hear that the harvest-weather in Scotland 'has been remarkable fine; from Ireland and Wales the accounts are less favourable. NEWCASTLE. SEPT. 15.—Rain and storms, in the Sonth, have injured the Corn, and considerably affected the prices. In this district the harvest is now general, and the weather rather showery. On Wednesday last, a considerable quantity of rain fell, but not to affect the crops. At Newcastle market, on Saturday, there was a good supply of country wheat, which, in consequence of the rise in the southern markets experienced a trisk sale, at an advance of about 4s. per quarter on fine sample% and 2s. on other descriptions. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 12.—We had a short supply of grain to-day of every kind. • Sales dull, and - prices fer all sorts a shade lower than last week, except wheat • which is considerably higher. Top price of new, fur seed, 359.; old 365. The Falkirk Tryst began last week. There was a wry large supply of sheep, amounting in the whole to ahout 20,000, and sales were dull, and prices on the decHne. Black faced crock ewes sold from ss. to 7s. 9J., and fat or yell ewes brought from 10s. to 12s. a head. Taps brought 12s. and 15s. each ; and wed ders sold from 9s. to 16s. ; only one lot brought 17s. a-head ; a number of lots remained unsold yesterday morning. Of lean stock there *as a lug, supply, and there was almost no demand : two years old brought from V. to 51. 10s., and three years old from 41. to 71. 10s. a-bead. The holders of lean stock were complaining loudly of 601'11 in the prices. One dealer lost on those lie sold 24. a-head, beside the (Tit of the grass since the last Mansion market. The 'losses of the other dealers would of course be in the same proportion. Fat cattle sold well, and brought from 91. to 171. 101. according to their w eight and quality. Though there was a number of buyers from the south, they made but few purchases. DUNDEE, Auo. 31.—There was a dull sale for all kinds of grain, and few purchasers inclined to buy. TRURO, SEPT. 14.—Our Launceston correspondent writes,. that the wheat crop in the higher part of the cow* is, in general, more than an average one, and that"the greater part has been saved without injury. New wheat sold at Dorchester market, on Wednes day last, at 17/, per load. BRISTOL, SEPT. 15.—The weather has been for several days extremely stormy in this neighbourhood. A shower of very large hail-stones fell on Monday, and a great quantity of garden-glass was broken in the ad kilning villages. Great apprehensions is felt that the harvest has been materially damaged; the price of corn has rose rapidly, and there is a probability that the Portswill soon be declared open, when large stores of bonded wheat will be thrown on the markets. Sere. 13.—The weather, during the last ten days, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, has been • generally fine—there lavaboes some showers, but not rain that could materially retard the duties of the field. We' regret,however, to say, that about ten o'clock this mor fling, it set in wet, and continued so till we went to press, when there seemed rather an unfavourable pros pect. EQULSTRIAN KNIGHT OF Tun LAST..--A few days since at Cheltenham, a lowly son of Crispin, vulgarly denominated a Cobbler, in a jovial mood—that is to say, somewhat inebriated, the glass having walked till all things else went round, took it into his head that an equestrian excursion would be glorious, hied him straightway to a Livery stable, and whilst de biting with a strange ostler about a steed, perceived a gentleman's horse just brought in, and ready ac coutred—whereupon he got astride, first paying the tire for the day, and " away rode Crispin, who but be ?" on fall gallop for Gloucester. The Gentleman to whom this horse belonged chancing to see him as he hurried along the street, requested a mounted groom, who was passing by, to overtake and bring him back, but the task was by no means so easy— fur such was the speed of the Cobbler, that before he reached the turnpike at Gloucester, in his race against time, be had actually knocked off three of the horse's shoes ! He was brought back, and summon ed before the worthy bench of Magistrates, who very properly, on the humane suggestion of the Gentleman whose horse he had so abused, ordered him, before being liberated, to pay two guineas to the Cheltenham Dispensary—half a guinea to the , groom, his triumphant captor, and all other expenses —and thus the affair terminated—the contrite Cobbler bow perfectly sobered into a resolve, never To Go in- TONI) HIS LAST AGAIN. We congratulate our readers on the extraordinary and gratifying fact, that not a single prisoner has been committed to our County Gaol of Bridwell since Friday giennight. A similar instance has not been known for a great many years, but we hope the occur rence will not, be so rare in future.—{Wartrick Paper.) ~~ THE STATERM4 7 HUNDER-STORM 4ND HURRICANS. ..;........- Tftuao, Sipr: 14.—The following accounts of the effects of the tremendous thunder-storm on the night of Thursday the 6th instant,• have been transmitted to us:— Ansysta..—On Thursday night this place and the adjacent parishes were visited by one of the most tremendous thunder-storms ever felt in this county ; the lightning descended in streams, and in such rapid succeuion, as to illuminate the whole bovines and render objects clearly visible, with scarcely any inter mission, for several minutes together; the peals of thunder were tremendously loud and the rain fell in torrents, as though a vast body of water had bees dis charged instantaneously from the clouds. The fol lowing are amongst the accidents occasioned by the storm in this neighbourhood. A mow acorn in afield belonging to Mr. Kendall of Bodriggan, was set on fire by the lightning and wholly consumed; another mow of corn, also in a field, -- belonging to Mr. Peake of Tywardreatb, was set on fire and entirely burnt.— A horse belonging to Mr. Heat, of Lostwithiel, was killed in a field at Trenarren ;—come other animals have been killed and others entirely deprived of sight by the lightning. The house of Mr. Harris of Luxillian was struck by the electric fluid, and severely injured; the family who were in bed, sad escaped as if by mi racle, whilst the walls, furniture, &c. were rent and scattered in various directions. LAUNCESTON.--Irbill neighbourhood was visited by a most tremendous thunder -storm, on Thursday even ing last. The lightning continued m fish with awful brilliancy for several hours, accompanied by loud peals of thunder and torrents of rain. During the continu ance of the storm, three oxen belonging to Mr. Par sons, of Werrington, were killed by the lightning ; as was a horse belonging to a farmer of Egloskerry. The Tamar swelled by the rain, overflowed its banks, and the corn which had been cut and placed in shocks on several fields along its coarse, has been carried off by the flood. CAMELFORD.—Duringtbe tremendous thunder-storm on Thursday night a mow of barley belonging to Mr. G. Hocken, of St. Tudy, was set on fire by the light ning, and entirely consumed. The evening amusements of our fair which was held that day, were wholly de ranged by the state of the weather. PENZAN cc—We ex perienced a dreadful thunder-storm here on Thursday evening. Daring its continuance, the lightning which was most vivid, struck the gable of an out-house belonging to Mr. Edward Pox of Alter ton, burnt part of the thatch, killed a cat which lay there, and shivered several !pokes of a cart wheel to atoms ; it also entered the dwelling-house, and knocked down two children, but without seriously in juring them ;—happily no other &wage was done. Lewes, Seer. 10.—About one o'clock in the af ternoon of last Monday, Seddlescomb was visited by a kind of hurricane which passed through a wheat field and a hop plantation belonging to Mr. Mercer. In the former it caused the sheaves, as it were, to dance the bay, and left them in the greatest disorder; in the lat ter its violence proved in'esistibbee aellreitra slay* pole being le ft standing, which would hien inbjected Mr. Mercer to considerable loss, had not the bops been in a state fit for pitching, a work which com menced on the following day. From Seddlescomb it moved on to Brede, and left similar marks of its rury in the bop garden of Mr. Adds; but missing that of , . • • tne pm or Mr. Bourn, it took the direction of his farm close, where it carried away the top of a wheat stack, forced in the window of a contiguous milk-room, and caused great apprehensions for the safety of one part of the dwelling-house. In the close is a pond, from the water of which it is asserted, that some geese and ducks were literally blown, and with so much vio lence, that one of the latter was killed. Its effects, we hear, were extended to Udiniore, where, it is said, a large tree was torn up by the roots. _ _ BEIGHTON, SEPT. 16.:—About twelve o'clock on last Wednesday, it blowing a strong breeze from the S.W. and that hour being the time of high water, about forty feet of the Black Rock Groyne, gave way. The piles, eleven in number, were by the force of the water, broken off close to the rocks into which they were driven. The break commenced about seventy yards from high-water mark. By this disaster alone, the Contractor will, 'tie said, sustain a loss of 3001. On Sunday afternoon, three young lads hired a boat at Strand-lane, to row a short distance, when owing to their unskilful management, she ran foul of a barge moored off Waterloo-bridge, and one of the party, H. Deloffe, a fine youth, 17 years of age exerting himself to get her clear, unfortunately fell overboard, and sunk to rise no more. His companions in endeavour ing to save him, had probably shared the same fate, but for the providential interference of a waterman then passing, who brought them safe on shore. The body was picked up yesterday, on the mud, near the above bridge, at one o'clock, as was also that of a re spectable looking man, 30 years of age. They ware both conveyed to Lambeth bone-house, to waft the In quest of the Coroner. NEU CASTLE, SEPT. 14.—0 n Monday last, about 12 o'clock, John Wilkinson and William Surtees Hetherington, convicted at the late Assizes here, of highway robbery, were executed at Morpetb, pursuant to their sentence: they were taken from the gaol in a chaise. On arriving at the place of execution, (a little below the tcwn) they joined in prayer with the clergyman, and seemed very penitent. Just before the caps were drawn over their faces, Wilkinson said, If I bad taken my wife's advice, I should not have been brought to this ;" and Hetherington said, "Now, my lads, I hope this will be a warning to you all, to mind what company you keep." They died without a struggle. After the bodies had hang the usual time, they were cut down, and delivered to their friends, who were in waiting to take them away." Canasta, SEPT. 15.—WONDERFUL PRESERVATION. —On Thursday, as W. Burgess, a person employed in watering horses, Ike. blind of one eye and nearly so of the other, had mounted one of Mr. T. Wilson's horses, at the back of the West Walls, in this city, the animal made a plunge, and, being as blind, if not more so, than his rider, leapt clean over the wall, and fell from a height of five or six yards.—Notwith standing this extraordinary leap, the horse lighted steadily on his feet, and the undaunted rider kept a firm possession of his seat; by which moans no other injury was sustained than the destraction of a few cabbages in the garden into which the plunge nas made. MIbDLESLX SESSIONS. THE RING V. WHITS •ND OTHERS. This waste indictment at the suit of the parish of Paddington against the defendants for keeping a house for the exhibition of unlawful gamer, such as dog fighting, monkey fighting, badger baiting, &c. in Harper's fields, Edgeware-road, to the great annoyance of the neighbourhood. At the suggestion of Counsel, they pleaded guilty, upon condition of being only re quired to enter into recognisance, to appear before the Court to receive judgment when called upon, in case they should be again guilty of inch offences. James Thornton was put to the bar to receive the judgment of the Court upon his conviction of perjury which took place last week. He was recommended to mercy by the Jury, as having a good character in other respects, and was therefore only sentenced to im prisonment for six months in the House of CorigLOon. Nothing else of any interest occurred. The sons terminated at 4 o'clock. One hundred and seventy seven prisoners were discharged by proclamation from the New 'rison, Clerkenwell, and ten from the House of Correction. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE.-•••MELA.NCIIOLY EVPECTS OP .TEA• Locer.—Yesterday morning, soon after 5 o'clock, the neighbourhood of Bishopsgate-street was thrown into consternation by the report that s man had been mur dered in Hose-alley, a narrow sequestered place; newly opposite Bishopsgate church. Gregory ; the officer, havillig been informed of the circumstance, ran to the spot, where he found a crowd of persons in great con- . fusion around a young man named Kelly, who lay bleeding in his shirt on the pavement; he had a des phate wound in the back, and appeared to be in the last agonies. A young woman who was present, be ing questioned as to the particulars of the calamity said, that she believed a man named Farrell, who re sided in a house in the alley to which she pointed, ba l d stabbed him with a cutlass, for she had seen Far rell with a weapon of that kind in his hand, and be traying such symptoms of embarrassment as led her to suspect that he was the assailant. The officer im mediately went to Farrell's room-door awl knocked, but no answer being returned, he broke open the door, and putting aside some chairs and a table that had been placed against it, entered and saw the wife of Farrell in bed in a state of great agitation. The un happy woman was reluctant to answer any questions which might criminate her husband, but the officer having satisfied himself that Farrell was the person who had committed the violence, determined to obtain a warrant for his apprehension, and to bring the wife before the Lord Mayor in order to have a part of her conduct, whisli appeared to be rather equivocal, ex plained. The poor woman, with her child in her arms, was placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, and the evi dence of the officer was taken down. Soon after the application for the warrant was made, a message was brought to the Lord Mayor from St. Thomas's Hosikkipsepting that Kelly wu in a dying state, and that he wished to make his deposition be fore a magistrate as to the melancholy occurrence which had take. place. The Loan MAYOR directed that the worthy Alder man who sat In the Borough should be informed of the circumstances. The Loao MAYOR dismissed Farrell's wife without ailing her a single question. Alderman J. J. Smith being the sitting Magistrate at the Town Hall, Southwark, was applied to to take the deposition of the unfortunate young man. The Worthy Alderman proceeded immediately to the Hos pital to the bed-side of Kelly, who is a tall, powerful looking young man, apparently of about 28 years of age. He was extended on the bed, in great agony, groaning heavily l his shirt lay beside him, covered , with blood. He made the following deposition : "My name is Michael Kelly; I reside at Rose alley, Bishopsgate-street, and am a labourer in the East India Company's warehouses; Simon Farrall and his wife, who lodge in the same house as I do, are always at variance; I used always to be trying to makepeace amongst them ; they quarrelled last night, and Simon Farrell slept upon the stairs; I sat upon a chair in their room, and fell asleep ; we wete both, the worse for liquor ; I meant to have gone to my own bed, but by mistake went to the bed where Far rell's wife was lying ; she called out, 4 you are wrong, Michael ;' I said ' I beg your pardon;' I thought that Farrell was in bed with his wife, but I found he was upon the stairs; he came in and took an old sword which was hanging in the room, and without saying a word to me ran it into my back ; I had got into my own room from Far rell's; be had followed me there; 1 was in my own room at the time; after he bad wounded me, be as sisted me to open the door to get out; I was just get ting into bed at the time be came; I did not suspect that he was going to du me any mischief or was be hind me ; Farrell's son, a boy of about 13 years of age, cried out— , Shame, father.' After I was wounded I came down stairs to call the watchman, to get some assistance ; I was so weak that I fell down in the dirt outside the street door ; while I was lying in the street I saw Farrell run away with the sword under his arm ; it was in about five minutes after I bad fallen down; at the time he stabbed me, he said, You blackguard take that;' I never had a word with him before; we bad been spending the afternoon together at a public- house ; I never gave him cause for jealousy, nor-know that he was jealous of me." Kelly then signed the above deposition, and declared that he bad nothing further to add ; it was the truth, and be had nothing to say more that he knew of. 'I he wound, it is stated, had penetrated the lungs. GUILDHALL—A CURIOUS Cutevwsratses.—This justice•room was more than ordinarily crowded yester day to witness the examination of the notorious Chas. Crowder ! whose exploits have frequently graced the annals of the police. The charge against the prisoner arose out of the ex amination and consequent committal of a fellow of the name of John Beavan, a well-known character, and an acquaintance of Crowder, so far back as the middle of august. On that occasion, William Reynolds, a con stable of the ward of Cripplegate-witbin, who appre hended Beavan, stated that at about 4 o'clock, in the morning, while on his duty, he observed three men lurking about in Gll - 14ill-rOW; and perceiviog ore of them to be Charles Ciowci;,r, whOse periuri andxharac- t. r he was well acquainted were about to commit some robbery hood. He accordingly watched and kt length saw Crowder and pick the lock of Mr. Webb's ter the house, and shut the door their companion (Beane) to to give the alarm if necessary. perceived by the prisoner Beavao, the house was in consequence contrived to make their escape clear off. On this evidence, r taken into custody in the street trial. Since that period all the upon the alert to catch Crowder, found at any of his old haunts, Saturday night that he was by When placed at the bar yesterday, attended on his behalf, suggested, in Beauti e s case had been gi.. be right that it should be read, Brown, the iittiag Magistrate, Reynolds was in attendance; IL that he should deliver his 'eildende the prisoner. Reynolds wu then called, the previous examination of , cause for suspecting the party ledge of Crowder, yet, when t Brown if the prisoner at the persons he bed seen in Bunbill. did not think he was. He was he bad seen ; be was something not swear to him. This answer L body with amazement. The officers another as if astonished; the who attended upon the °mai( and detained another well known nion of Crowder, upon the suspicion identified as the person with could scarcely repress his feelii nolds to be asked, if the person been well-known to him for mans ever, was objected to by Crowder' Magistrate himself thought it, least unnecessary, as the witness would not swear that the prisoner persons he had seen. Reynolds the prisoner was "'be of the men. mer answer. The .A'Alerman • charge against the prisoner, him. Crowder bowed and left the his solicitor, amid the general His companion, whom the city was of course set at liberty. Bow-silt al:T.—Richard Bowers, of the prig*, duffer in ordinary crackmax occasionally, and " houses" in the purlieus of day committed to Newgate on a highway robbery in BlackL market, at four o'clock on Sunda , wortby has'been very industrious ferent lines, bat be manages bit - the Police halm not been able ' LAMBSTH-STREET..—P. Keeton, wu put to the bar before Sir Matthew Wyatt, Esq. charged the Overseers of Newington accomplice in robbing and attempting It appeared in evidence. that the evening, a fortnight ago, the'. hog conversing with two friends Church; there were , two suspicions standing all the time in conversation side of the street, who, as soon prosecutor alone, one of them where be stood. struck him stomach, which knocked him him of his watch, and ran off. able to stand up he pursued the stop thief; but he had not gone again ',knocked down by the seemittgly in attendance to t quired, and while on the grout the gang came forward. commenced attack upon him with bludgeons, dreadful manner. Being disturi, coming up, they ran off in different prisoner wu fully committed to A few days ago an Irishman in-Furness, in an affray occasioeed of the English reapers to Irishmen the same occupation. Tuesday an inquest was held pett, the poor woman who was . Kent, when a verdict of Wilful against John Hayward, who was to Maidstone Gaol, to take his sizes for the county MARRIED, e'On Thursday, 13th inst., by the church of St. Alltmund, Derby. First or Grenadier Regiment of Guards. rig. eldest daughter of John Barrow. Admiralty. On Saturday, 15th instant. at Edgebaston liar Jesser Starch, eldest son of William Montague-street, Russell-square, ter of Timothy Smith, Esq., of 1 mingham. Oa Saturday, 15th instant. at square, Lieutenant-Col. Fearon, Miss Palmer. DIED. On Thursday, 13th inst., at his residence M. Atkinson, Esq. aged 38. On Friday 14th Inst., at her residence ' Mrs. Ann Closley, aged 92 years. On Saturday evening, 11th instant, r 013th year of his age, H. Robins, Covent-garden. At Kennington, on Saturday lath aged 33 years. On Wednesday, 12th inst., at his aged 73, Mr. W. Hill, formerly of disb-sparer A few days ago in the parish of h, aged 101. This venerable matron to the last. The oldest•people of late dosed their eyes on life's nearly of the same age. Thus .1/ moat, and Stewart, the tinker, gathered to their fathers at the natant and five years. London : Edited, Printed, Ind . "Tim STATUS'S (W" "Ting Paper) We. 191, littand,, moat* by R. WARDELL, Jas., L1e.11.. maiisitleas, Orden, IL are requited . lit w 311411.111"6111 th, he hap eee i d ti... .. 1 Dbbtry in that oeiibll. , bed them for sou s th ig nd one of th e ot ter en . -- " door, in Fore- s treet, e l" loor after them ; leo e i - . keep watch is the au k : • r. lie (Reynold s .) ; 1. ran, rang Mr. Webb's b e % I raised, but the thi srat tpe backwards, sad in . Beavan, who had bo a , ' :reet was. commit* g oi i 'he city officers hare der, but he was not LI a, and it was not y accident apprehUd e t • , • sterday, a solicitor, coy seed, that as the mill*, iven upon oatb, it rig& cad i and Mr. Alchemy tilde, thotight that et it ',mild be more prep, deride in the presences( and although he bad et Beano stated th a t 6 1 y was his persoaal knew. .l asked by Mr. Aldermar 1 bar was one of the tk ree • . 1-row, he replied, as h k e vas stouter thuik e au . Ig like him, but lis itoolk ver seeme 1 to strike evert I officers looked opuses t city Marshal (Wentner), t ion, and who bad stopped sown character, a comps.. i spicion that he might be Crowder and Rearms, 1 clings, and wished Sep 1 ion of Crowder Lad so i ;any years. This, he i r, - 1 wder's Solicitor, and tie it, if not improper, at' leis now stated that le i over was one of the three i olds was spin asked t i en. and repeated bas ki. ' i a then said there was no . • I and be could ask det a i n i ' 1 .1 to office, accompanied 1 1 al bus of the audits ty Marshal had ds 1 Barer., street nor dal . e iary, fence extraordisa4 milliners to all lit 4 l Old Drary,,was yeti* • h In a charge of siteV Blackmoopetreet, Sunday morniag. This ries, htety to mattli 1.. hit affairs se clovetifat' . 1 rto slob:claim et i. - . . 1 1 eden, alias .1 • , Iv Sir Daniel . v 1 Id by Mr. Wilms s tjf m !latish, with Wag* ai tempting to4antiwilL 2 hat about six e'clesitia B the prosecutor was stair B friends near Newisgl o th 'spicietu looking fain 'variation on the oppsdk ea as they remarked dm a deliberately blow elycrss i d 44 a i e1: i a violent ri down, and then rebind kJ off. 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