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`: • I f •, I (.: 1 1 4 • AGRICULTURAL REPORT. • Extenct from the Esidertetr emtexeri to the Re port or the Select Committee of the of Commons upon the Agriculture of the United Kingdom. Jeri*, 15 die Martii, 1821. Twomaa Sititamont Gooett, E. q . in the Chair. John Ellison, F.. 9. again eelkd is, aid further eramieed. Stale what you courtier would be the smallest emit at which wheel resold be prutluce.l per arre, Minn the first, sessusd,•nd third clam of soils, itidependentl) of rent ?-1 have been making a calculation this taunting upon the mill. Ohms classes ; but 1 have nut taken the miter two, whirls 1 will, %sib Ifae perinimion of she Committer, deliver in un tiitu.e Jay ; 1 hoer lakess a statement fee eight year*, of the middling quality, worth shout 11. an acre, which 1 calculate would produce three gleaners, ur twenty four bushels per acre.. on an average, taking had and couil yearn together; 1 have tumid, in eorryiart out the amount of txpeisses and pooloce,4f wheat wild at le-s than U. per quarter, there was em rent remaining for the Isittllurd. kllate what is the 'proportion of the rust of manual la bour ?—"I 'tumid cationic manual Labour at somewhere. about front two shillings and sixpence Its three 'hiltless per hush. I, to the production of wheat. What would the horse labour cost ?—The horse labors, would tpe abort float to the manual !slitter ; 1 should esti mate bone labour at two shillings mid sixpence, sod about She sass for the manual !sheer. How do estivate the 'slue of malearr ?—1 have est i to•ted the valsarof *anon at 3.. prr eul load; osier rustu ttury carts, arkielli contain about tweisiy-rickt bushels. Iyhat is Our weight?-1 think it would he nearly a ton aright, of rotten dau,t ; of ,otigh dung, out wore than four teen or Intern hundred *eight. What dv yam valiante the rspaises of reaping and stack. lag ?-1 estimate the capsule of reaping Si 12*. per acre; tuttiag and shucking, the carting tu harms, td..d manual la hone, I estimate at es per sere. What do you reckon tlhe threshing?—Furor shillings per %limner. When you speak of the expense of threshing, you speak sr( ' -it by moos& I..hour ?—Yes. doin What' g do yen pay your regular men per week 144, a week to skew that are colustasitly by the day through the tear, allowing them a guinea additiun.,l lu the mouth of harvest. What is the price of eOlll/1111011 labour ?—Alwint It. 9 I. per thy, but urn more than fourteen Or fifteeu pence a wren by some of my neighbours. Fur what is that labour'—The common labour upon the farm; such as hedging and ditching, and such sort of la bour; carting manure, or draining, or other labour ulitre alley are worki.g by she day. Supposing a I nd Ily good harvest to Ike place over all the kingdom, would the inesemed quantity of the corn the farmer would obtain remunerate him for the derreme in price'—lt in impossible to answer that gisrution to the tans. faction of the Committee or myself, but I should 'motion., from the ezperienee of the Present year, that it would out; I should rimed that use priremowld be lower if there was an abundant Corp the present year. !supposing thirty millions of bmbela of grain were imported timing she opening of the ports., which closed on the 15111 of Ifebruary, 1819, what world the amount of labour laken out of our own market its conisetplence of that quantity of grain imported?—lt would amount to upwards of four Dui. how ; I do not speak of four million. as manual labour only 1 iodide the horse labour; amid I should think, if the ma. noel labour, as I slated before, was from two shillings lo two shillings mod tixpersee a bushel, the manual labour wily vu wheat would antarest to upwards of two millions taken out of the country by the opening of the port", and the corm brought in during the time they remained up. is. Supposing this statement to be true, that there were thirty million introduced during that period, what influesee do you attribute this to have produced on time employinr u: or nun-employment of war ow• labourers (or the laid two years?-1 believe that it has tended to deprive mum' tabour ing men of labour epos the farms, ur in other words, to rte. price the farmer of the cease of paying those labourers, and earosequently he would nos employ them; I can speak of the parish of Divide, bowleg nearly the whole of the parish; I employ all the labourer., as 1 otherwise must pay them out of the pours rater. Have the pollees* to state to the Committee, what, in your opinion, will, be she remedy for that evil ?—no far as my own knowledge goes, I think that nothing is so likely to reme dy the evil ea • permanent deed duly to the amount of 3os. or 40s. per quarter on import, which should be somewhat equal to he d.ffereisee between the expense of tau ing grain la great Britain and us the toutinesit. At the present rate of tithes, taxes, and prices, would you recommend a son of your's to take a farm ?—1 certaiuly should not. What is your idea of a flied duty; do you mean so high as to be Oa prohibitory mere?—By no means; when she priers of grain rise lobe oppressive on the consumer ; I mean if the price of grata should rise even to 60a. per quarter, that any Axed permanent duty the Legislature might third' fit to nnnnn would not slop the importation of foreign grain lido this couutry, when the price had risen to SOs. at appears to ape that a Axed penumbral duty would have this operation when the prise of wheat is this cuiiiitry wan 60r. per quarter, aka foreign wheat would not be imported to pay a duly of Zbi. or 405.; but when it ruse to 75i. pie quarter, that a duly emu of 40s. would be paid by the importers, mid they 'would get a very good profit fur importing is. Do you mesa to alter the law as to the importation price of grain ?—lf it was in my power, I should alter that law; for I do consider that law no protection olialever to the !Wettish farmer. In what respect then would you alter that law?—ln the way I propose, by leering the ports uproot all time., by payisg • fixed permanent duty on the import. Do you think, from the information you have obtained as to :be price at which grain could be grown on the Continent, • duty of forty shillings would lo any measure protect the Hrit.sh farmer ?—lt is my opinion, that it would protect 04 what 'sources of information do you funnd that opt, ran ?—The amerces from which I derive that information. ore from conversation that I have had with different import era sf grain, and particularly a geutleman living at Lewear (who has imported a considerable quantity), a very large mealtime and • 'merchant ; he skewed me several letters lately, both from Dimwit and trum Hantburgh, from ober cheats there, offeving to ship wheat at certain prices. Did be inform you what was the general ge price of cern in those poets ?—He did ; be fur:owed me, by letters that 1 saw, which be said came from his correspondents, merchants there, at what prices they would put different wheats on board ; fur white wheats mud red wheats, to weigh Ili and 62 pounds • bushel. Did be give you any inforsaatio• respeeting other sorts of grain except wheat ?—No, he did not. He is a large meal s/me; only testing in wheat and flour. At what prices did it ai•pear that say of those wheat. could be sold in Englandil—He told me, that atter paying the freight, it could be delivered at Newhaven harbour, near Lewis, at from 32 to 34 shillings a quarter; the ereight would be about four shillings a quarter; that they could buy it at 21 shallows to 30 shillings. Did be state that as the would average price, or merely the price at Ibis present moment ?—He stated that it wan fie. gloomily lower; that he could frequently purchase it at a less prier, and I suppose rice versa, sometimes it would be brewer; when the ports here are open, the prices rise un the opposite side. Yoe have stated that you rated the manual and horse labour at shout four Mailbags a bushel ?—Firs shillings • heabel on wheat. Don hut the price of that labour vary to • certain de. Bore, according to the price of MIS j dues nut the cheap. seem of corn eirabk pie to keep the homes cheaper, nod to pay less wages to your work people ?—Must undoubtedly ; it operates both he redwing the price of Stumm labour soil oaf olaausl laborer. Cass you tell is what proportion the price of the food of the animal, both of the hareems', she man, eater kite the price of the labour ?-449, 1 really custom l 1 have Noe rtmade Aid calealatios, to speak with any &fret of emi fidence. You have said that von would have a permasent o tiled duty ou importation, (veal to the difference of the expense of growing corn here, and growing corn in a foreign country; suppose that the population of England were very greatly to increase, and it should be necessary for us to hare recourse to much poorer lauds, would not the dif. retrace of expense between grow tag corn here, and growing corn abroad be moat greeter than it is at Ibis remotest ; and accurdiog to your principle, would it not be necessary to increase the fixed prrotairetil duly accordingly ?—I answer, as booboo labour la.* ms,kctable article, like every thing elsr, the superabundance from an increase of population will have a tendency to reduce tbs price of that labour, I for which reasons I think touch of the pourer lands of this country might be brought into cultivation, which now remain • posit:ve waste, and the labourers be employed under proper protection. Du you think that the rice acorn would rise, if we were under the necessity of cultivating poorer lands for the. sup l i - port orlon' rot& ?—The diminution its the price of labour wool) be a great inducement to thu cultivation of poorer Linea. If yes as a farmer were obliged to cultivate land of a worse sysality than that yule now cultivate, would it not be necessary for you to charge a higher price for your cum, in order to remunerate yourself fur the capital you employed in it ?—The expense of the cultivation is much greater on poor land,.ronsidering the amongst of produce; then, uu the other hand, by way of comoensating the former, if there are a number of labourers in the parish whom he is compelled to employ, or pay than out of the poor rates, it is much better to employ them at considerably reduced wages, thus to keep them on the posit rates . Then arcording to your principle the farmer would get • greater profit if he cultivated pour land than if be cultivated good land, prof 00 rent for either?—Certainly not; I do not mean to say that. Du you think that the price of labour its regulated by the price of corn lit any drgrre?—l do tank the price of corn has some operation on the price of !abort, bet certainly not to regulate it so as to snake a regular stale of increase or decrease. If tie Committee will permit me, I will state how it has an effect 00 the priers of labour; the very reduced pa ice of corn within the last two years has been the means of ' throwing a cleat many labourers out of empluy, those !s -hooters rather Ilium remain idle would work fur much less wages than they would do when there was coustast employ. meat fur the whole of them. Supposing we had a protecting duty sufficient to protect tic grower of curls in this country, and consequently that the farmer was making his fair remunerating sweat ;if ler those ciecriniatanees be chose to cultivate pourer lauds, would not the conrequence of that be a higher price of corm ? —I should say, eritaiiity not. I have never yet been gives to undristanal, that an increased produce raw tend to increase the price; ■u increased produce will diminish the price i■ Ibis country. Do you think the increased produce always tends to lower the price of the commodity produced ? —The increased pro duce will tend to lower the price to the consumer. Although the charge of producing it should be increased ....The kroner has it not in his power to charge what Is thiatirs proper, or what will remunerate him fur t h e capons. of the article he produces; he is subject to other circem. stances; be is differed from • COlllllllOll manufacturer who edentates all his espeus•s in producing as article, and charges accordingly for that article. What do you conceive to be the causes of the difference between the biglie4 and lora est resit on laud growing wheat —The difference in product with reference to the capital employed in parlor-log it. Supposing the demand for a commodity to increase In a greater degree than the supply, would not the prier of that commodity rise although a greater quantity of it should be produced ?—Uudoubledly it would. Would not this he the case if poorer lauds were•ealli. sated, seeing that from the in of population there would be a demand fur s greaser quantity of corn, where.. the means of producing an increased supply, would be at tended wish increased expense?-1 do not appreheud that ohs extending t►e cultivation of the poorer lauds of this country world have any tendency whatever to increase the popula tion of she cuunoy; that being the case you have an in creased t.npply of cosn wishuut any increased population, and cutioqueotly the price would be loiter by extending the clitiovattnii. Ttm increase of population is mistimed, and the increase of the cultivation of poorer land in consequence the pm duce of the soil keep. pore with the increase of the puptila lion, I see no season why it should rise; if it did not it cer tainly would, and rice versa, if the inc of produce exceeded the increase of the population, it would tend tattier to decrease the price than uthei apse. if Government lays a duty on the production of corn, 111111 it nut a tendency so raise the prier of corn, •Ithosigh no additioual quantity should be produced, the demand to maitsing the same ?—I do not apprehend that it would, even if a duty was positively axed on the corn grown in this coon- MC; I do not see how that could tend to raise lb. prier, ex cept by diminishing the quantity of land used in the cultiva tion of that gown. Suppose an increased population in England, would that be Itkely to have the effect of affording • greater supply front Ireland and Scotland, where they have no poor rates, by bringing some of their poorer grounds into cultivation, which are now uucultivated from the lowness of the price ? I should think it would. Whatever would lend to extend the C 11161116911 bulb of Scotland and Ireland and this coun try, would operate to reduce the price of corn in this country to the consumer. grain to keep up to *early Om would not that bare an immediate effect in bringing into cultiratiut, some of the poorer soils is Scotland and behind which are now abatidoued ?—lt certainly would, and of extroding mattes lion in this country also, if grain were to keep up to the price. You base stated, that the form for which you paid soot. per annum in 1790, ruse to 1,200/. pe m in 18111 that i■ 1814 it fell again to 1,0001., at which it has continued since !—Exactly You hare alms slated, that the real of other farms, for which you are agent, rose one-third from 1790 to 1811 ! Yes. They have now soh' fallen one...bird ?—Yea. • How do you aecooot for the rise is the rest shoe, 1790 of Me faros which low hire, while the rests of the faro. for •grhich you are neat are the same or lower than they were N 1790 , -1 answer. that I can ask more fur smother than I ma do for myself; that is the only reason. I bare not su large so abatement as is made to oilier leotards us the astute fur winch 1 am emacerued. TOAI have said. that ea some of Ibe best lead which conld be cultivated. a farmer would he reausaerated even by the present low price of grain, it he bad no real to pay ?—I be lieve I stated, on some particular rich lauds of light tillage, where the represent tillage was het little. What rent do you think a paid for that land per acre ? We have some land in t►e asighbourhood that rents as high as 40A. au acre; some of tie land 1 have been dasoribiag. Ou that land, if no rent were paid, the farmer could even at this price obtain a profit ?—Net at t►e price we are sell ing at in our roomy. We are wiling wheat at Lewes, at no more than from forty-eight to fifty @hilltop per quarter; that is the best price at Lewes, except white wheats; 1 on. derstend they are selling higher in Lostdors. Is there any land whatever iu your county oo which the farmer could obtain • profit by cultivating corn, if he had no relit whatever to pay ?—I think there is some land of that description. When you say. that the capital of the farmer has de. creased in these unfortunate times, do you mean that the mousy seine of his capital has decreased, or that his stuck bas actually decreased; that he has fewer cattle, horses, sheep; and a Ito quantity of bay, corn, sad of other things wM contlitute the stock of a farm.'-1 beg to say, that we one poi ocular (arm over whicb I avn agent, the farmer three or four 'rare ago kept four or sem WWII (II es a small farm of 110/. a year); he kept sit or eight remits growing up breed ing stork, that he bred to Conte into work; and also three to four cows, generally four. 1 was sorry to Sod the vlher day, in gulag user this farm, that all the yeoman stuck were your, that all the oar's were rose; that be had only three mows; sod bad tate is four ur firs boyars, which 1 saw it the yard, treading doom die draw, hi Ike of die Pm Pik yonog stork. Do yen thick that this state of thins Is petty repeal among the agricultural classes?-1 do; and it is hot mo aned only to the rester of lauds. A circumstance Occurred (within two mouths of this time) to me, of three farina, two of them were of the amount of 4001. a year each, and the other, 3001. a year; they have bees he the ocerpation of the owners for fifteen or twenty years, sad those the most economical farmers 1 kuow of is the county, who run into ao unnecessary ezpimse whatsoever; they applied to sae to get some friend to advance them roomy on mortgage, for they could not go on, though they had no rent to pay; they could not pay the poor rates, be. You stated that the quantity of bonded wheat was injuri. ons to the farmer in this couutry ?-1 think very considerably so. Why should it be heirtful to him until the price rises to 60. ?—lt is hurtful to him before the price rises to 80s. in this way ; it takes several buyers est of the market. Those who would speculate in • very full whet, in taking off the surplus beyond that necessary fur the weekly consumption, now bare kid out their money in the purchase of foreign corn, that is now under hood, as I have been informed by some of the factors here in town; for which season I con ceive that the British corn brought to market now, has not ao many buyers as it bad before the warehousing system took place. A man buying bonded corn at 465. has so probability of selling it till it rises to 80s.; but another person huying free corn at fifty or sixty shillings may sell it whenever he pleases ?—The precariousness of the sessoas in this country art such, that we usually have seine is about three or four years a very defective crop, which if Use price does not rise to nearly or quite 80s. a quarter it Is totally impossible that a farmer under those circumstances can be remunerated ; so ibr speculator, in corn (those who have gut mosey at com mand) will not purchase under those eiressaistancrs, British turn at 80a. if they can bey foreign cora, though under bond, at 10.. though the one is free and the other is bonded for the time. if the warehousing system were done away in this country would nut foreign corn still be warehoused in the ports of Holland and Hamburg's, ready to be imported into ellis country, as soon es by law the ports were opened'-1 bate uu doubt it would, but certainly not be purchased by the same people by whom it is purchased now that it is bonded in Great Britain. No you think that tithes fall ultimately upon the rent of land, or upon the consumer of the produce of laud ?—ho. medistely on occupiers; in some &glee it must fall on the consumer, though the producers must bear a considerable proportion of the tithes at all times. When you say that the Enghob farmer t compete with the foreign grower of corn, on aceuuet of taxation, do you not mean that be is under the necessity of so raising the price of corn, to compensate him fur the taxes, that the con. sumer Ands it more pruilable to buy the cheaper foreign corn ?-1 think it totally impossible that the grower or grain in this reentry can raise its price at ph ; there can he no combination among the fat oars, if ors withholds, another will send to market. But it will be necessary that he should raise the price, in order to compensate bim for the tax?-1t is necessary that the price should be raised; ►et I think it is totally wit of the purer of the farmer to liaise it, it must be raised by the demand being greater than the supply. When you say that the malt ins falls ea the occupier, do you Mean that that does not alms fall Ow the eistimuser, iscreasiog by raising the price of melt and the prim of beer? —Noi in the proportion that it does on the farmer; for this reason, the f hinter fithit beer to so teas, people, deffetent from what ■ comatose family does; it has been the general practice in Sussex, for the farmer to lad beer fur all his t la bourn se. Supposing there was a free importation of barley, duty free would out that tax, at present, fall entirely us the grower ? —I shuuhl think it would be iutreasiug the supply at market, and consequently reducing the price of the article. Do you attribute the present low price of coin entirely to the increased supply, or do you attribute • part of it to the *lteration in the value of currency ?—I really have no !now. ledge of the operation 4 the currency on i ing price.. Then you attribute the whole fall to the increased supply of torn, ur the decreased consumption ?—lt must be priun pally from the increased supply et market. Do you observe that time is an increased consumption of potatoes among the labouring classes is your •eigbbour. hood'-1 think there is a considerable increase withiu these ten years. . . . Do you think that the large importation previous to the end of February, 1819, has ►ad as effect upon the price of corn to a late period ?—There eon be 1110 doubt it has ►ad a very great influence on the markets, it has tended to in. crease the quantity of grain brought to market, and by in creasing the supply, the dessard continuing the tame, the price must decline. . Du you understand that there Is say of that core in the market which never has brew bonded'-1 am informed by a factor, there are needy, or quite, 50,000 quarters in the market. (To be continued.) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. "Rre 7401 : 111 4 Auclurr 97. Arrivrd the Southnorth, Simpson, from Literpool; Inte grity transport frunt Gibraltar; and the Rosario and Typo (rum Cuxhaven. Sailed the Gud Mid Haab, Cock, for Southampton ; and Iltorkiugharo, Waugh, for Bombay. PILTIMOVTA, •USUIPT 97. Arrived the Yuri Merchant, Greyburs, horn Charaute fur London. An American brig, name (Miaow'', has arrived off the purl, bound up Channel. FALMOUTH, ♦COUIT Arrived the Juno, Blackburn, from Alienist for Grimsby; and the Lyme picket, Clark, from Cork. The marl for London, by a went regulation, leaves this place now at half-put Iwo,p.m. instead of half-past five, a.m. and the bags are closed at balf•past our every day. WHITBY, AVOUIT 47. Arrived off this port the Harmony, Stevens, frum Green land, with 8 bah, 110 tuns ; and Volunteer, Craig, 8 fail. 14 tuns. DIAL, •UCYIT 28. Came down from the River sod sailed the Amiable Eliza, Grafitti'', fur Havre; Caledonia. Tate, fur ; Mary Stephens, lot Genoa ; and Congress, Ridley, fur Mi. tansiehi. I H a, •uourr RS. A small vessel, called the Mud), is lost un die Spaniard Sand; she was Gum Bologna fur lomdun, crew and pas sealers saved. Arrived the Mercator, Brewhi, with windlass •pset, ■nd loss of anchor and chain cable; Telegraph, Amos, with lass of anchor; and several ether vessels names uak•uwn. AIIJOUST 2/. Arrived from Greenland *be %Stalker, Ilarrisou, seven Gab, 230 butts; Lame!, panties., seven fisb, 290 butts; Man chester, Mitchinson, five tisk 70 butts; Sbanime, four fish, 140 butts; Lbor, Lee, five fish, 170 butts; sad Ve. lineable, Bennett. 10 fish, 280 butts. Au American Paper (the Kentucky Gazette of the 26th July) says— .. About eight waggon bolds of specie were shipped a few clays ago to the East ladies in one vessel. How many loads have gone to the same country this season esunol be staled; but a moderate calculation would settle it at about nae hundred. Our gold is stealing of without notice. The mint is continually coining, but very little circulates, sod the reason assigned is, that it goes to England, France, &e. As bills of exchange un London pay ten per cent., it is cheaper to send silver or gold thou to pay the difference" About twelve o'clock yesterday a great quantity of plate was stolen from a house in George -street, Hanover-square, by some person who contrived to pose down the area steps unobserved (the gate having been left unlocked), and entering the butler's pantry whew the plate woe kept. • SIMS EX ASSIZES. ••••••ICR.o.mgm.•••• Lawn. AUGUST eg. GIILISBRT W. BLAIR. This was a• attics for slander. The Plaietiff Is • our geon and apothecary at Worthing, a•d the Defesdant a journeyman to Mr. Boning, a butcher of that town. Smith Hanson, while with some other persons at the Royal George lan, in the above place, said to one of the party present, who complained of rlietunstisai—" Why not apply to Dr. Gilbert, I think that he would give you some relief?"— Upon which Thomas Blake, the Defendant, observed to Hanson—"' When you see Gilbett, ask him wheat he saw Mr. Duke last ?"—" What shall I say to him when lie has given me an answer ?" was the reply of Hanson—Blake then made the following statement, which constituted the grunted of action r—" When Gilbert one day visited Mr. Duke's, he wanted a basin and spoon for the purpose of mixing up some medicine; a servant girl took the basin and spoon in to him, and Gilbert used them is mixing op the medicine; a few minute• afterwards the basin and spoon were missed: an alarm was given. At that moment Mr. Duke coigne in, and asked what was the mailer!—The girl told him that • basin and silver spoon were lost; Do you DOA I have got the spoon ?' said Gilbert. I should as soon suspect you as the girl,' answered Mr. Duke. Gilbert Hies insisted on being search. ed ; Mr. Duke did searc► him, and fiend the spoon on hie person; epos this Mr. Duke probed him out of doors, sad horsewhipped him off his premises." U• bearing this state. nient the wituess said that he modal inform Mr. Gilbert, the Plaintiff, of it. " Do," replied the Defendant.," and tell hint that I told you, for t bad it from good authority." On the cruss•examisatioa of this witness it appeared that a brutkwr of the I)efeadsnt hod bees prosecuted by the Plaimirff fur a similar libel, and damages recovered epithet him. Mr. W. Pennell corroborated the above evidence. Mr. Duke was then examined : be paid that lie lives ofr Leominster, near Arundel; that it was true • spoon • hick bad been used by the Plaintiff was lost iu his house, and that a person bad been searched, and the spoon found in his possession, hut that person ass not Me. Gilbert. Mr. MAR TTTTT for the Defendant, reminded the Jury that his chest had nut invented the slander with which he Ives charged, he had merely, through mistake, substitute.' the name of Gilbert for the actual thief; and this mistake had originated with the Defeeriames brother, of whom the Plain tiff had recovered ilamars, and, by so doing, bail fully via dicated his (Mr. Gilbert s) character. The Learned Counsel thought the pretest action altogether uncalled for on any reasonable ground, and confidently relied ola the Jury giving the most trifling damages. The Learned Judge, in Lis address to the Jury, said, that small damages in this case would never do—it would cause the public to suppose that there was some truth in the story. If the Defendant was unable to pay in pocket be must pay is person, otherwise poverty would become • license for ca lamity. The slanderous expressions which bad been so clearly proved against the Defendant were peculiarly cal culated to injure the Plaintiff in his practice s and the Jury must be well aware that when a man—a professional man particularly—war once supplanted in his business, it was very difficult to recover the patronage be bad lust. This ewe sideration ought to influence the Jury is their decision as to the amount of damages they should give. The Jury, after a short consultation, ret•rned • verdict of damages mud Is. costs. DABINE V. CONOLLY AND ANOTHER. This was an action for • trespass, ender eireuinerasees of • somewhat extraordinary nature. The Plaiutiff, Mrs. Dabine, had engaged a house of the Defendant, who is • aur`eo• at Brighton, al the rate of SO guineas a-year. On bee taking possession, w►ich was on the 25th March, IVO she paid half it-year's rent in advance. lu the latter end of Ftbrisary last, that is, before the second half-year's rein be came due, Mr Oniony, wanting money, applied to the Plaintiff fur 101. on account of rent. This application prov ing ssssssss s and the lady having removed a great por tion of the furniture frus the boost, Mr. Conolly's clone wet* excited against her; and fearing be should lose his rent, be resorted to the line of conduct detailed iu evi dence as follows: Margaret Jones, beiag sworn, stated that she lived user not to Mrs. DeWitt is March lest; that, on the 311 of that mouth, Mr. Couoll came to Mts. Dabiee's house, and knocked at the door; witoess answered from the wiarlow ; ' Defendant said he wanted to get into the house; witssess refused to let him in : Defendant doubled his list, and swore (by d—u—g lii. own eyes) that he would gel in ; be then dew duwu the area into the yard, and site beard the window smash; she went down and saw that be had got into the house ; lie had brukeu a pane of glass, which enabled him to introduce his baud and unfasten the window through which he hal entered; Defendant ran up stairs ; ail-- Ness was too much frightened to follow ; on his coming down he said they were • d—d set of robbers, that they should all be murdered, and that if grittiest did nut leave the house he would kick her out; in consequence of these threats witness left the house; at the time of her thus leaviug, a writing desk, locked, heloaging to her mistress, was, anion other ihisgs, left i■ ►he house; she immediately went sad told her mistress, who was at the house of • (stead, what had happened; her mistress, the same evening, sent her after the writing-desk aleuvansen firmed, and some dresses which were also in the house, but the Defendant refused to give them up, observing, that lie in tended to have them put up to public auctiou, and that Mrs. //shine might, if she liked, atteaslasd bid fur them ; the Bele took place oa the 12th of March; Mr. Cottony was present, and Mr. Ridley was the auctioneer; the printed bills, anuonucing the sale, described it as being " under a distress for rent ;" besides the desk, there were various arti cles of household furniture sold, and also • handsome paru quet in a braes cage; witness supposed that 401. or 504. was the value of the goods sold. Me. Hannah Borrer, •hetler witness, who lived opposite to the house occupied by Mrs. Debtor, in High-sheet, de posed to her having &Heeded the sale in quest sun, and that she had aces the Plaintiff there, who forbade the sale; wit ness saw Mr. Conolly and the anclitmeet in the drawing room, looking at • writing-desk, which was open, but she did not know by whom it bad been opened; Mrs. Dabine always appn►ed to act like a prudent woman; *items knew nothing to the contrary. Mr. ADOURHVII, who was Cosasel fur Mr. Conolly,'said all be could iu the way of defence, as he bad previously done iu the eroas-exam►uatius of the witnesses. Mr. A. admitted that kin client had Gbiaioed possession of Me house in a meaner that could nut be justified is law; ►et there were ',demisting circumstances cesemected with it, which, he hoped, would induce the Jury to give the least possible damages. His client bad let Ms house to Miss Dabine en the express condition that half-a year's rest be paid in ad vance. The first half year was so paid. The secood half year bad nearly elapsed; and sot a farthing had Mr. Conelly obtained. This alone was calculated to ranee his suspicion; but when to this was added the fact of Mn. Dabine having removed the greatest part of her furniture from the pre mises, he was sure the apprehensions excited in the mind of Mr. Conolly, that some unfair proceeding was contemplated by Mrs. Denim% would nut be considered by the Jury alto gether unjust or ill.fouuded. It was the coavietiuu, that some proceeding of this sort was meditated to deprive hiss of his rent, which led Mr. Conolly to the coarse of conduct be bad adopted. Mr-Adolphus thee eunsierated the various articles which had been sold by eviction, mid which, with the exception of the paruquet and cage, and a couch, were, he asserted, of the most inferior and iusiguillcant &scrip. tion. The whole amount which they fetched was but 271. 18e. There was nearly 28/. ss. due fur rest: and dedsctiag from the produce of the sale, the expenses of the auctioneer, &c. these would be left to Mr. Conolly a sum insellicieat to cover his just demand. After strongly urging these sad other est culpatory arguments, and particularly expressing his regret that Isis duty precluded him from touching on the life, cha racter, and behaviour of the Plaintiff, who, according to one of the witnesses, gained her livelihood by taktag its needle-work, and, occording to another, by kilts( a ready. furnished lodging house, Mr. Adolphim concluded an tug,- miens speech by recommending his elitist to the f and protection of the Jury. Mr. Justice BIJILROUIIII commenced kis address ter the Jury be observing that they most give a verdict for t►e Plaintiff. His Lordship designated the conduct of the De. (cadent, Mr. Couoity, as most sotrageeitsj it restioWed fist of a roliber—fie breaks the window, OS info the house, and swears that its inmates should all be niarderetL His Lordship eautioued the Jury against the insinuations which had been advanced roncetiong the diameter of the Plaintiff, Nothing having been proved in eildesee that could cast the least ;illatio' on it. In respect to what had been stated shout the issaigoiGrassee and niCl4ll.• nem of the articles which had bee., sold by auction, his Lordship directed the attention of the Jury to the printed hill, published by Ilse •uctsuneer on the !object, wherein those very article+, thus contemptuously spoken of, were dercribrol as " hasiolsqme household forintoire." And in regard to the worth of those •rtsclea, hit Lordship reminded the Jury, that gumbo, czpo,c.l so unction, rarely sold fur their full valve; it was, sh.rceore, itrobebre, that what one of the violin:met had cod as ;wring their value (401. or 501.), was more I•ksly to Inc rm.tect, than the sun of 271. 16s. for which they ;erre sold. H... (continued his. Lordship) it was nut by soy lots au.iaMed by the Plaintiff' in this illegal sale of lore Nooperty, that the Jury ought to estimate the damiges they were burnt to give In her to rpor. They should also take into consideration the out rageous assault which use Deems !ant, Cosrully, had cum milted; he had been a wrong doer, and a wroux doer in a very great degree—the lady, who had hetet stilojected to such treatment, who bad bad her cl-sk beam. open, and her private papers ransacked and exposed to the public eye, or at lemn to the eyes of the Defendant sad the auctioneer, was entitled to compensttlon: the case was use of the most aggravated description, and the Jury' would not fail to satisfy the public by administering justice. After deliberating for a few anomie*, • verdict was re- turned—Da mtge., 160!. _ _ (This verdict - only arcs. the Drfendsit, Mr. Cwnolly. In the ewe of Mr. Ridley, wkw was iovolveil with Mr. C. it verdict was given in his favour, he having only meted it, him character as auctioneer, and being. by no means ite plicstrd in the wore offensive ',art of use transaction.] DESTRUCTION OP FA It 'HAG STOCK By FIRE. We lord to hear that a great deal or new bay has hero more or leas injured this season, by being improvidently carried to,, soon. Tuesday hat a large rick of new hay on the farm of the Earl of Bridgewattr. at Neltlttlea, near Aslsridge, baying become over licatett, took fire, and burning with great fiereettea w soon communicated to au old rick of bay adjoining * and bath were eousurlWll. • ‘Vedursday,Ao bon t Oracle o'clock, a fire broke out at Warner's Farm, Great Waltham, Easex, ocrupird by Mr. Thomas Hadget, uceaaito ad by the over-heating ore stark of hay,coutaiiiiug it arty fifty loads, and wbkb aloud a short distatica flan a bstu to which it comniamiented aid shit considerable damage. The euguies armed in time to arrest the poogrsm of the devouring element, otherwise much our° valuable property would bare fallen &sacrifice. Wedataday mortitig, about Iwo o'rlock,.a fire Lrnke oat art the Crinimgetteo farm, is S.,harn, Cambridgeshire, belong ing to fife John Dirbede, which entirely med a large bay stack awl a stark of strait. Tneciay afttrooun a vary alarming fire broke out *pun tits premiss.. of Richard Brettiugham, Esq. Of Mend bun, Sufulk, near Hariestau, occasioned by hay being stacked in too green a state. About shay tons of hay, %Mr stables and Oars'', fell • prey to the devouriug element. The town which bad caught tise, was preserved 4 the timely an teal of the engines. Ou Th urs d a y se•aatght, at 1 P o'clock at eight, its cause. quetice of healing too violently s a destructive fire broke out its a Isrge and vsluable 143 y-week on the premises of V. Mateo, Esq. of ?Ireton, Norfu . k. Precautions had been lakeu to cut and faggot the same, but front the quantity of marrow leafed plantain they bay col/tamed, the evil, it is thought, coutintied to augment, and finally threatened the destructiou of 4401. smith of fine new and old hard-lard bay. ilu Tuesday raoruiug last a large slack ef limy in the (Arm ya,cl of Mr. J. Brows of Pudding No r t o n H a ll, near Fakrn oaa do:marred to be on lire, and hay to the amount of 2001. was &street.). _ A fire of a very singular but alarming description was occasioned stae•doll, on Monday last, from the folluwing circumstance :—A perm who held in his band a burning glair, Directed • child to put a piece of paper against • lasin, upon shirt, he !nought the sun's rays to to a manner which set the paper on fire, when that part of the barn being mach covered with Innis, the blase was communicated to the thatch; and she burn with • stable adjoining were thus tosselly COUhUmed. The Rockford en gine arrived on the sput ghostly after, but owing to some defect, it VI2/ rende.ed useless. About midnight on &timidity hart, some abandoned per son set bee to a large new beast-hotel, which was rosered with about a thutomod faggots bird several loads of strz.w, in the farm-yard of Ilhr Wm. Gilbert, of Thierkiiraham, Lin colnshire; protrodetitia!ly the fire being discuiered early, wa► preventid trout spteolitig to the other premises. 'there is moron to suppose the fire was the diabolical act of a■ loons altaiy, is coast gramme of a disputa which had arisen the dap before respecting the r mploymeeit of Irish labourers. On Monday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the marl-yard of Mr. Cross, farmer, of &Moans, near Nor wich, which Ike most unwearied esei titans could aol subdue until three bay stacks, four straw slacks, fire score of thrashed wheat, ten pigs, besides a barn, tnrttip•bouser, earls, and many implements, bad been destroyed. The furniture was also greatly injured. We understand Mr. Crones stuck is insured in the Norwich Union Office. The cause is yet unknown; but there is some reason to cuppect that it ha► been the act of au iscendiary. CORN EXCHANOR, Auourr 29. In consequence of the change In the weather, higher prices weir asked this morning fur Wheat, and a few sales %eft made of prime samples at rather better prices than were obtained on Monday; but there was au improvement in the demand fur the iuferior gaillitics, although offered at Mouda)'s prices. The Oat trade continues very heavy, owing to 'be magnitude of the arrivals. Barley, Beans sod Pease sold Oil full as good terms as an Moodily, owing to the wet weather. COAL MARKET, Aueurr MI. Ships al Markel. Ships Sold. Priaa. •23 Newcastle 22 Sunderlaud 1 Cinders 0 PRICE OP *MOCKS YESTERDAY. S per Ct. Rol.. 763 76 Doak L. Auo. 1.9 9-161 3 per Ct. Cony.. 75i4ik I 9- 16 51 per Cent.. tifil I India Ronda 59 60 pr. 4 per Ceota....•. 95iii Ex. 131 35 3 pr. 5 per Ct. N. Ann 108! I Lottery Twitch' 19/.tpt.. 109 1081 I gnus. fot Oct. 76 75:i Imp. 3 per Ct. An. 751 I MARRIAGES. On Tsesday, the 28lb inst. at Mary.le-hone New Church, by the Rev. Geo. A. theses, Captain Magenta, eldest am of Richard blaganis Emu M.P. of Grosvenor-place. to Mi.. Auu Maria Shepherd, of Wirnpulemtreet, eldeia daughter of the late William Shepherd, E.g. DEATHS. On Sundt) , morning, at the house of Lady Blake, Bury St. Edmond's, at as advanced age, Mrs An• Fergus, a maiden lady, sister to the late Dowager Lady Gage. On Tuesday ;nerving, is Po►tland-place, Astir, the wife of Sir James Graham, Bart. M.P. for the city of Carlisle, after a severe sod protracted illness. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGR. Morning 35 after 3. Evening 48 after 3. Primes] sod Published at THE GRATIS!! PRESS and THR CLOSE Office, No, lel, t' C. COKNWILL, of the Urged.