The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

doable the importation of the preceding year, for they were
to the 'cleat of 770/47 quartan of sore. and 989,637 cwt, of
eons meal, repeessatiog a mosey va'ne for the impatinion of
the kat three months real to erase of 2 090,0001. star-
ling. This was important statistical laforma• leo, from tilloal
returns, and beyond the pee of dispute and he saw no rea-
son to doom. say I. the damask They could not
fail to see the isaportsaes of a free yiekliag gyp, fetching
from 300. to 38s. per quarter • sad he did am see why
Hautrehire, when then were tioussads of mires of suitable
land, now almost se altogether unprelastive, should not be-
ems a inabse-growing meaty, and if you will not mama
it seed it to those who will. The idle sends leads would at
88c• bosoms prodastive. There was no doubt of the het ;
the trial had been made, sad there wee iadiepatable evidence
in favour of a liberal and isalteshatiag where of the maise.
The ham or rejadies had been brawl through, and that
was a great peat seised. Whoa he spoke of sasoraiful ex.
palmate is serehlaad, he did sot speak out of the book ;
he was at hams with them, end where the teat of truth was
at hand. Bat, beyond their own district sad about his
home to the Pyrenees. he had seen Showers& of scree re-
dressed from sterUi!y, as it were, and made rich is the him-
bandry of males. Tee, ha had seen hundreds of mere sand
lead brought into cultivation and made worth 261. an sae.
whisk previastly to malt cultivation would not have fetched
Si an acre. (Hear, bear, and chars.) Now, with respect
to the cultivation of the forty.day mass in &viand, he had
bad great difficulties to contend with. In the Brat place, be
had ea a sham of land, to say nothing of situation, which '
especially In a great trial, wee t oportanr. Nctirithetanding
the experiments made under his own sureerikutes both in
'nodal (a very unlikely spot) and in a rural district of
Hampshire, the experiments had been perfidy successful
and sivishietory„
Hr. WYAT f—What was the produce. We like to get
to fats ?
_

HERNE replied that he should have them, and
Indic-
potable tactile too. la their own meaty—in Hanipshire—a
very few miles from that place, as meek as fifty bushels of
maize earn per acre had been gathered this year, althustek
wow circumstances over which then was no control the
seed was pat Into the ground later then it ',light to hive
been, gad the soil was far from being in a fit condition for
depositing the
_med. Toe probable average producer was
"464 ealogallfd. Taking the drills at twenty-six inches
wide, and Ike pleats at ten inches distant, there would stead
27,600 plants is ea etre, which at amen oohs to the quart of
seed—and that was a liberal allowance, thirteen being the
average—there would be *WM quarters to the sere.
But la presides one-fourth less. This number of plants
stand on the ground, yielding about fifty bushels. He
bad hand of (woes yielding 100 bushels per acre,
but he was n-01,81)1114 his statistical facts to its
cultivation in the present year in England- He had had ex.
perieuee himself of sorts from various °Gantries, from
India, America, end from Turkey, but he had confiner him-
self in his experiments to the growth of a sort which might
be cultivated with success, in England is an average summer
weather. He believed that he bad succeeded. The experi-
ments of the year he invoked confidently in his svour, and
be bed still higher hopes and more sanguine eapectations
in regard to the future. tie had good rowan to say that he
bad by hie own efforts originated and brought to ttieir own
soil anti climate • suitable maize wholly independent of or as
a follower of anything that had been attempted before him;
and he might, perhaps, in all suitable humility, apply to his
exertions the language of Loru ll.con, " L a men perform
that which bath not been attempted before, or attempted
and given over, or bath been sebievid but no:. with so good
circumstances, he shall purchase more honour than by effect-
ing a matt. r of grist r difiLulty or eist,e wherein he is but
• follower." (The speaker resumed his seat amidst canal-
, derable applause.)

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A POST-OFFICE CLERK.—For a I,
considerable period numerous complaints have almost cone '
stoutly been making to the post-office authorities by peril's
residing in this and other towns of the loss of letters coo-
t.iniog mosey ; and, from the local arrangements of the post-
office, suspicion was almost invariably oast upon the B •nriek
pot-dike. These losses have latterly attained such a height
that it was necessary to endeavour at least to discover the de-
: linqu, nt, and according)) a trap was laid, into which it was
thought probable the guilty party would fall. Letters from
Northumberland to Edinburgh and the north are sorted in
the pas'-i•tfice in this town, and here only are the bags for
these places made up. This being the amuse-
ment, two letters were despatched on Wednesday from
Alowick by one of the inspectors of the London Poet office,
addressed, one to a party in Edinburgh, and the other to
Copse, the one contaiaing a is vertign and nine postage
stamps, all marked, the other c intainang a new Kirin Inca,
also marked. When the mail arrirr din Edinburgh the let-
ters were not found in the bag, showing at once that they
must have been abetracted at the Berwick post office. A
telegraphic notice wee immediately conveyed to Alawick to
this effect, and the official who posted the letters in gues.ioa
came to this town for the purpose of making the necessary
investigation. On his armed here, between five and six
u'clock in the evening, a warrant was obtained from O.
Gilchrist, Rel., arse of the magistrates, to search
the pertain and houses of the post-office clerks,
and, accompanied by Mr. Prondloot, the police
officer, he proceeded immedistely to put the warrant
into execution. Oa searching Richard Elbert, the
second clerk, the sovereign, the Morin piece, and the stamps
were found on his person. Of course a warrant was imps
Mandy made out for his committal to prison. On Thundey
the prisoner underwent a private examination before the
mayor and the other magistrates peanut, and was committed
for trial at the next Northumberland mines. Mr. Rowland,
stil.citor for the prisoner, minded to watch the proceedings.
Oa &opined in to admit the prisoner to bail, the magistrates
required two sureties of 2001. each, but it was stated to be
impossible for a person in his situation in life to procure such
heavy bail. He theta re females in custody. This case
has excited csnaideratde haulm in the town from the pri
souse's I reviaus good character, and his being long con-
nected with the Post-office.—Berwick Warder.
A LADY'S POCKET PICKED OF 4001.—Early yes-
terday forenoon, the wife of Mr. Hill, the architect, put
into her purse Bank of England notes to the amount of
4001., for the purpose of taking liven to her husband's office,
in order that they might be ultimately placed to his credit
at the back. On her way to New.etreet, however, mom.
panied by her little boy, she had occasion to go through the
Market-hall, and, shortly after quitting the vicinity of the
Bull-ring, ehe found that her purse, with its 4001., had
vanished. Within/ bad occurred to make Mrs. lidl suspect
she hat been robbed, but there can be no doubt that one of
those little rooms who swarm is our streets Sound himself
the asexpected t armor of a fortune, who, a moment before,
had not a farthing in the world. Information was at once
riven to Superintendent Stephens, and toe detective force
were ems vs the alert; bar, up to going to press last night,
nothing had been heard of the money. A reward of 2W.
has been offered for the remover, of the note., the anneben
of almost all of which are known, and of rousts payment
has bees stopped, as far as is practicable.—Biresing. Jour.
ALLOTMENTS eon SPADE LABOUR.—The Rev. T.
Bowen, of Stoke Hammond, has recently caused 15 scree
of land, in that parish, to be allotted to the poor for cultiva
tion by spade labour. The act is an excellent one. We
should rejoice to see every working man in the kingdom in
the poseeseion of a plot of ground wherewith to obtain the
bountiful produce of the teeming earth ; if such were the
cue, abbtais, as well as individuals, would be greatly bene-
fited. Some persons unfairly avail themselves of an undue
profit from land let out to plots. In illustration of this we
may observe, that we know of many instances in which sgri.
colourists let some of the wont of the land on their farms
at more than double what they pay per we. In some
cuss the rent is rtquired in advance, in addition to the
abort rental. Notwithstanding the, such an excellent
savings' batik is the land. when well managed, that its pos-
session is, even on such terms, greatly advantageous. Of
nuns it would In saws so if the owners of the soil
would give them oplortanities of being first instead of
second tenants. In this matter than is a wide scope for the
' really well-disposed landowner to hen& the community,
and himself at the same time. Every landlord might, in
snits a new lease, stipulate for a certain number of acres
ro he underlet to farm labourers employed on the estate.—
Bucks Advertirer.
Tan Rivals Don, Trent, end Derwent have been
so swollen by great rains in the North Midland Hills, that
they have overflowed at various places not usually subject
' to such mishaps. At Derby three persons have been
drowned in the crease and floods of the Derweat.

Attila %TIDE CASE.—At the petty semione held at
Stratton, on Thursday, 4.11 inst., Wane C. N. Bray, Eag ,
the Rev. 1 Davie, and the Rev. W. Lae, magistrates, a
bastarday ease came on which crested some considerable
degree of ezeitement, in consequence of the extraoedinary
drenmetaltere connected with it. The parties is guidon
were Mary Dinner, a girl about 18 years of age, of Lasalle,
applicant, and Edward Cole, of Stratton, yeoman' a married
man, defendant. What suited the public mirid so lunch
was, that Mary Dinner charged s pervon as being the father
lof ler child wane lit le time before she left Cole's servile',
which she has since stated was untr.le. In the coons of the
investigation the girl Mated that stout January last
she used her mister. Edward Cole, for some money to
provide for her hpproaettieg eenffianend. He directed
her to apply to a neighbour, sad borrow their bunch of
key., wheh would unlock the drawers wheys he kept his
cash, and take what she wanted, which, she 'Aid, he stated
he could not give h, r himself, because Mrs. Cole kept the
key. keorling to this permute' n, the girl takes not 7e. 6d.,
when Cole ir steady turns round on her and tells her if she
did not pat the child on some *be, be would seed her to
gaol ; and to frighten the poor girl, bag her she would be
transported: he then named a person who she was to say
was the father. The bench made an order on the defendant
for 2e. 61. per week for the child, with an expenses. The
isdhsnent populace, to the number of about 200, met to-
gether in the evening with lighted torches, and paraded
the town with an of of the putative father, which at last
was committed to the lames.—Correrpoodent of the Western
Times.
THE RECENT CHILDBIRTH CONCEALREET AT
HOBBVIIT.—APPILEILIINtION Or lilac CIiAVIX AGAIN.—
Ili,. Craven came from Lancashire to liorbure slot g with
her reputed father daring the afternoin of Thursday, the
19th itis•aza, and at about ten o'eleek the same evening abe
was arrested in Mr. Craven's dereliimg.house by constables
Hun!, Moulding, and Ow. On Friday nut she and Con-
stable Geo storied off to Waltell Id in Mr. Craven'e gig; she
mounted the • tiver's seat, sad then drove to the Woodman
Inn, Wak• field, epparently quite lancnicented and regard-
less about the matter, although may persons asvembled to
have a gni at her. Shortly after her arrival at Wakefield
she was taken to the Court-house bef ire T. H. pworth,
when it was arranged between Mr. Highest sad Mr.
Stringer, that she should be liberated on Mr. Highest and
herself entering into a recognisance for her appears- ea at the
Coen-house, Wakefield, on Moeda,' seat. After the rscog
tannin was enured into she drove off, alone in the gig to
Mr. Craven's residence, where we understand she lulu re-
maine.—
Wakefield Journal.