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H TTON-0111tDat6
Ssiwh Sala, a Cypriots, was charged, yesterday.
by William Robinson. wits ruh'ring him of upwards
Of SI at h-rr lodgings. Charleute-buil.lings, Gray's-
inn-I inc. Phis was one o' the numerous cases of
fill wi picking 112 unf-rristrue womcn of the town.
and atterwa ds, in their so'ser or senultl moments, re.
penting of their misconduft , and revenging themselves
upon the objeet their a...it am 'iris, by chariv,ing
them with taking more money than they onght. Ihe
Magistrates are ton lenient to those men, who ap-
pd? to have neither decency, delicacy. nor msnly
feeling ; and, instead of expending their valuable
time in listening to such scandalous complaints, as
they would in the case of hackney-coachmen extort-
ing an extravagant fare, we advise them to repre-
sent the complainants as offending contra AJNOS
and, as coca, fit objeas for the visitation of the
Court of Kul's-Bench. They oughc to tall such
fellows, that if they sought redress, they should
come into Ccurt with clean hands. The prisoner
was remanded for further examine:4s. ,
MAY Ara ticks bro ight before the Sitting
Magistrate, on suspicion of Ste sling a ring, value
411. the property of Miss Ogle, the daughter of Col.
The ring in question was in a box, with seven or
eight or nine others, in different c ises. It was the
most valuable one in the box, end all the Colonel's
servants were abroad, and the Prisoner, who is ser-
vant to a friend of the Coltrnel, who resided in his
house, was the only servant at home, on Tuesday
seas, nowever, absent for some time,
on Tuesday night, and last morning. Suspicion
thence arose that she was the p lion who stole the
ring. She was committed fur further terrains,.
non.

A tailor, who resides in Rosamond-street, Clerk.
enwi 11. charged a Mr. Si. mows, a Jew, with •ies.
lently assaulting him, by puiling him of his board.
and striking him on the breast so ♦iolently. ilia be
was obliged to have medical advice. T..e comm.
stances which gave rise to the assault were these—
a cousin of Mr. Simmons applied to the Corn.
plainant to work for him, and he inquired if be was
to pay him, or his father, for his labour. as he did
not likit to ga to the house with its bill. the family
being like so many bull-Jugs. Nest morning. be.
tween eight and nine o'clock. the ihrtinlant came
to the Plaintiff's lodgings. whets be was at work.
and asked him how Ile could call people such nastiest
and immediately seized him by the collar, and
dragged him off his board ; the LOOT being a
weak man, his wife ran down stairs for assistance ;
during her absence Mr. Simindus struck the poor
tailor.

The Maoists Are recommended the parties tog.
and settle the ativr. Tray shortly attar came into
Court, without haring settled it, nor would Mr.
Simmons put in bail to answer thu assault. Hs was
committed to prison.

Instruitions were receiv.-d at Hull, from the
Admiralty, on Saturday, by Captain E. Geer, Re-
gulating Officer of the impress service, and by him
communicated to the Mawr, who Mame 'lately
called a .meeting of the owners of ships employed
in the Davis's Streights and Greenland Fisheries,
to take the 'abr.& into conside:ittion, and to adopt
proper measures for raising the greatest possible
numbvr of volunteer searnca, under the following
condi:ions, via.—.." To receive 21. 10s. and the same
pay and provisions as on board His M 4.IFST v's ships
of war :—To be discharrd on the arrival of the
ship at her moorings, and sent home to the ports
Irons whence they entered, free of all expense :
'To be carried in frigates, and other ships of war,
from their respective ports to Copenhagen r And
each seaman to have a written certificate, stating
the nature of his engagement." At this meeting
it was resolved, that the owners and masters of
ships employed in the fisheries should meet Capt.
Gass:, at the Mansion-house, on Sunday, at moo,
and that in the mean time they should earseatly
recommend the attendance of all such swam as
were willing to volunteer in this important tem-
porary service ; ander an inseranee that as ta►
vantage would be taken at their utuatiee. Re ow
demand that aear iJ wade an oiler of their wt.
vices en Monday ; and. next day about £3l bad
been engaged. The impress servos was se Tues•
day moaning 'upended to show wait eolnower•


MALT.

EIr,SICC (rota P: pets pressatel t,t the Hail af CallaOM,
relatiag tot' &Was a Walt on tne.Fleti.de.
Ain. s
I lonses. St as--In obedience to your Honors' ci-
der of the 30th November, to report very folly on the
facia ariong out of the evidence giv-n before a Coin-
miiiee at the Knipe of Como:rms. to whom the seve-
ral petitioos relative to the making of malt were re
felted, tai slat-d in ton printed report which accom-
panied the said order; I hays 'manly to ouserve.
that 1 ha veKe • n several year detached from the ,to-
yes ing nl malt, hit knottily me experience in tiv ir
bosom of the 'avenue wasenisiderablo. having beer
Sni veyor at Nochen and HaLlotk. and also in Suf-
folk. Hampshire. DetonO.i•e. in • • I.4neashire ; and
officer in Watwirk. Woe•ter. old StAflordslairre, and
at of these clices I was in th • habit of surveying
vter. malt I have likewis , since re,:eiving your
H..note order, employed my mind very closely os
the ilthjee, and finally. having by order rat toe firmed
•ssite • all the principal malting pil 'cgs to the North
and Wrgr n' London. where th process of Mal'ieq f.
carried on under a very differeci system of ptactsee ;
II humbly think myself now ettahled to .peak very
fully and clearly on the case. an. I have humbly to
submit thivfollowing report as theresult of the whol.
of nay experience and inquiry.
rehire is prohahly .so branch of revenue wherein
such dissimilar pr letizes and discordant notions
prevail as [.tat of malting, and this in a great de-
gree arises from the omission to trace the natural
causes of the Cale up to its true source. Hence is
that the two different modes of watering and not
watering the corn upon the floors, appear in the evi-
dence to be supported by pudica' taas, which are
in dire.'[ opposition, and by a contruiety of opinion,
whet) leaves mull of tSe operations of practice to
a stAte et contradictory confusion. l'o appreciate
il• • mai io of the.e, and to rescue the Cato nu: of
that svithArii:ty wiih which it appears suirounded
in the rimed Report of the evidence, I huoiloy
conceive it will be proper to go pretty distinctly into
the theoretical and philosophical principles of the
subjee
John Reynoldson, Esq. one of the agents for the
watering party, is the only person who has altempt•
ed an explanation of the mineral philosophy of
indoor. tut his account, I humbly think, is ton
defective in science, and ton a:missed in itself, is
aff just and satiifaeory conception of the
case ; and, without At all intending any impeach-
ment o• his veracity, there doustless are several
parts of Ida evidence which do exit hit very apparent
sympt 'me of leaning wit': no inconsiderahie bias
to that side of the question Ochich he appeared so
solicitous to support. Nevertheless he has made
two or three very strong cnooessions to the oppo-
site party. desk; mg the: restrictions against
'watering on the. Altos have no stronger advocate
• than himself; and that he WC convinced & judicious
lint[sti,.o of diste wiruld &pirate to Increase the
vain • .st milt tea recent. throughout the king.
dqm. and in another Sas:* be :adores his belief.
that, consider if icientilicially. malting and brewing
are vet its a sta•e If infant',
'fine itelouss,,a which olr. Ray: oldsisa's evidence
appeals to have made on the L matittat. was pece.
bably much tai led by Om appeal-does of scientific
research, with which et was a, companted ; but, as I
humbly ihiok, his poilo.ophical views of the subject
are neither sufficiently founded in nature or the
real ciicomstiocei of the ca.*, and conceiving that
corre.l and comprehensive knowledge of that part
;utter. of mai ing, wherein nature is so •
large -.rot-r'ously employed, is the only true
foundation for reasoning on the subject ; I
will begin by stating what I consider as the true
THKORY or MALTING.
The interior of a barley grain consists of two dis•
tine parts. a m hure germ, destined to elongate into
the future plant, and a portion of farinaceous and
mucilaginous matter, stdred up expressly for its
future conversion into saccharine, as the pabulum of
thelferrn in the earliest stage of ifs vegetative exist.
MCC
The germ itself consists of two very different
. parts. the plumula (acrospire in malting) and the
radicle or root, both are united at the same end of the
grain ; but in germinating, the radicle very soon
pierces the husk, and separating into several fibres,
eloogatesdownards. while the acrospire, but much
more slowly, advances though the body of the
rain, and piercing the opposite end, soon shoots up
into a green blade, leaving the hu.k of tile corn
empty, and perfectly exhausted of its former con-
ts cis.
The radicle is much more rapid in its formation
and growth than the acrospire, because, as it is des-
tined to prepare and transmit to the stem nearly all
. its psbula. it isnecessary that it should be sufficiently
matured to perform this office by toe time the acros-
pire bas consumed the store which provident nature
had laid up for it iw ebograin.
Their is no difficulty in comprehending the first
dawning' of vegetative life is the germination of
barley ; the grata, placed tinder favourable circum-
stances of moisture and warnals, imbibes both, and
slugs much t the radicle lying mares: to the exte-
rior. is the most susceptible of these, it swells most
and first, and ord. r its new combination of moisture
*Noires an attrainion for the oxygen of the Annus.
phere. The oxygen, as it becomes fixed, produces
two powerful effects, it give. op that portion of latent
beat which held it in te gaseous state, and by its
lianas eaters into a new cosoianatun with the
farina of the grain, convertvag it into an made, or in
other words into &saccharine.
The stem put of the germ, previously swelled
by the moisture, and sow invigorated by the heat
produced from the fixation of the oxygen, acquires
an attratiiun, lot the newly-formed saecnaiiiie as-
simulates to itself. and in the ehenncal atom of
amps which ensues. vegetative life is devil •ped.
hoc( simply is the natural process of
Manny species cf seed, though bare sestricted
M barley ; and it is important to reniark, that the
beat arising frum the fixation of this oxygen is the
•-• the couch, and
* • dig. rent de-
ig-floors. ant
elation of this
ut the menu-

tlie grais is

slow and progressive as the actospire requires it, and
hence it may easily be eoncrived that between it.
first fbrmation and final consumption, there must 6 •
a period of tune when the largest proportion abounds
in the grain, and this is the proper time for throwing
the corn upon the kiln.
sir. keynoldson, in his evidence, states that the
saccharine previously exists in the barley, and that
the process of malting only developer a substance
which was already present in the grain ; but this,
like several ocher of his philosophical as.ertioits,
so c mtiary to the natural fad as obvious/I to refute
itself. The chemical and natural eh traeiers of milt
differ sn essentially from those ot . bar!ey. Ai Cle.it IT
to prove that there has been not a mere develniie.
mrnt of a ming present, but an entire c iangr. of
the original substance into another.

PRACTICE oF NfALTING
Malting then is nothing more than the promotion
of a healthy germination of the barley, tad to that
period when the largest proportion ot saccharine
has been formed, nor ClIl any thing be more ob-
vious, than that in a variety of modes to accom-
phi!' this, one must be superior to ail the rest, and
that no: locally, but every where, because nature
is every where the same. In every natural proce s,
a varying of the means will necessarily produce a
difference in the end, and in the two modes of
milting, by watering on the floors, or omitting to
Jo so, there is so material a difference, not merely
in the use or disuse of thewater, but in the time,
management, and other circumstances, that the
one cannot but be superior to the other in the qua-
lity of its respefliiie commodity.
A single instance, I believe, cannot be produced
of any natural process whatsoever, wherein nature
permits the employment of two differ.nt means to
produce precisely the same end. The application of
,ais to toe question of malting will, l humbly pre-
sume, be sufficiently obvious, by wpa'ately con-
sidering the different branches of the case.

same whit; first becomes sensible in the
s' 'el-wards continues to thew itself in
greet ant .ng.t the corn on the workini
so the nice soljostment and due repel
heat consists the most important part t
ptletions of malting.
tits incaution. et the saccharin* is