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The wheat harvest has commenced throughout the west
of England, and the aceounte bath of the quality aftd bulk
of the rrop are highly satisfactory. The plantation of hops
at Orchard Portman, near Taunton, is in a remarkably
thriving state.—Dreites Gazette.
The wheat harvest is now in almost general operation
throughout Devonshire, and the produce is bountiful.
Oats and barley arc also abundant crops, except on light
soils, where the want of rain has been most felt.
The wheat and barley harveet is now becoming general
in this neighbourhood. Though the Lent grain, as we
have already stated, is generally a failure, the wheat is
fine ; the produce will probably be little below an average
crop. In some districts the rains last week proved very
serviceable to the late-sown barley.—Wereester Joarnal.
The what harvest has generally commenced in this
neighbourhood, and the accounts, both as to quality and
quantity, are highly satisfactory. Some few local excep-
tions may be found, but on the whole, the wheat crops are
abundant. Barley and oats are a little improved from the
late showers, but the latter is a very alight produce.—M-
enenth Jovrnal.
Reaping is begun in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.
Three bands of shearers were at work on Thursday, on
the fields between the north side of the New Town and the
Firth.—Scolsnion.
We rejoice to find that all apprehensions for the safety
of the harvest and the late potato crops have now vanished.
The rains have betn general in every part of the United
Kingdom. They did not come in time for the hay, and
that is the only short crop.—Dublin ;Worming Post.
Leteere en, Jr' the whole tract of fertile
country from Derby to this town, the crop of wheat is as
fine as ever was beheld, but the oats and barley are poor
and stunted. The pastme lands are quite parched up, and
cattle, which in a more genial season would now be fit for
the market, appear lean and lank on the scanty sub-
sistence afforded them, even in the richest plains of this
county. Hay has advanced in price from eight to ten
pounds per ton, nor can any thing like an adequate supply
be had to meet the demand in the London market. Reef
and mutton are from sixpence to sevrnpence a pound here,
and vegetables almost as dear as in the metropolis.
The reaping of oats and barley hes now commenced on
many farms around Dumfries, and harvest, in a very few
days, will be pretty general throughout this district. On
Monday, the lath current, a field of excellent potato oats
was cut down on the farm of Gateside, parish of Newabbey,
and last week several farmers in our more immediate neigh-
bourhood imitated the example. On Mr. Grierson's farm
at Bartford, parish of Penporit, four acres of potato oats
were also cut on Monday last, which is the earliest ever
remembered in that part of the country ; and a gentleman
informed us yesterday, that at Sanquher, a place remark-
able for its cold soil, he lately beheld some rye which was in
a state of perfect ripeness. We arc informed also by our
Liverpool correspondent, that some fields of wheat and oats
had been cut down beside that town at the date of his
letter, 13th curt., and that a great many more were quire
ready for the sickle. Similar announcements are now
making their apFarance in ainiust every newspaper, so that
the harvest may be said to be as general as it is unprece-
dente Hy earl y.—Dumfries Courier.
The late rains have already clothed with verdure the
pastures and mown meadows, which before appeared
parched, and neither afforded nor promised sustenance for
any kind of cattle. Tbe moisture has also been serviceable
to the potato crops and those of late sown grain, which had
suffered greatly from the drought. The early wheat fields.
however, seldom preeented a finer or more productive as-
pect, and will, for the most part, soon be fit for the sickle.
Already, indeed, several acres of this grain have been
reaped in different parts of Yorkshire, and on Monday
last there was cut down a field of excellent wheat, belong-
ing to Mr. William Geldart, of Gildyard Ilouse, Gilder-
some, near this town, which was a good crop. We have
likewise observed some oats ready stooked in the neigh-
bourhood of Leeds, which, like that crop generally, we
believe, will yield a fair return of grain, though the straw
is remarkably short. Upon the whole, it is expected that
the harvest will be rather favourable than oth, revise; but
hay is an exceedingly scanty crop, and will probably- be a
high price, as well as other species of fodder, during the
next winter.—Leapt Inlelligencer.
The continuance of dry parching weather has produced
so premature a ripeness of the grain generally, and the
wheats in particular, as to call forth the sickle at an early
part of the month. Much of the corn is riper in the car
than a common observer may consider; and it is incum-
bent upon the farmer not to be parsimonious in engaging
assistants; for should adverse weather set in, and brisk
winds in particular, no inconsiderable portion of the crop
will be whipped out, the kernel being somewhat withered
in the chaff, and not so well secured as in moist seasons.—
Chelmsford Chronicle.

Rom roan SAvitcu IC Ben K.—The number of depositors
up to the last quarter amounted to '2,o2l;—total snin in-
vested at the Bank of England. 37,182!. I tr.. 2d. During
the last quarter twenty-nine have opened new accounts,
and 1,957/. 3s. VLI. has been received in deposits and
interest.

STATUE OF GEORGE THE FGERTIL—A curious conver-
sation occurred on Thursday in the Court of Common
Council.
Mr. S. DrzoN raid. that Rs they were row on the subject of
statuary, be should like to ask the Town Clerk, whether, to the
beet of nis recollection, a statue of each King had not been put up
in the Royal Exliange shortly alter his Accession
The Tow N-Ci.Ertir replied —After his Coronation, I believe.
Mr. Dixotr said, though ouch had been the general practice
hitherto, he hail red t heard of any statue having been erected there
to his ponent :Ilajesty. It had been generally dune as yet, and
why It was not done in the present instance, he for one could not
puwbly conceive.
On this Me. FATELL remarked, that soon after the accession of
George the rour,h, various precedents had been examined; and it
turned out, from the Examination of them, that for five hundred
years past ne statue had been erected in the city of London to
any King of Engtatid, until he had first dined with the citizens in
their ancient bell. It would thus seem that such Is the impor-
tance of a dinner i the city, that a Monarch, however great, who,
(roar any circumstance, bappena to omit dining In Guildhall, must
hate no statue erected in honour of him.

A EN AI V,EATLit.—A man in Undtrhill, N't. a few days
since, for the sum of twenty-five cents, swallowed the head
and a considerable portion of the neck of a large striped
snake. having disposed of the head, for a more liberal
compensation, he offered to swallow the remaining part of
the serpent ; but the spectators were already satisfied with
his perrortuance. The unsavoury meal proved rather difficult
of digestion, but the stomach of this snake eater was less
affected than dose of the astonished spectators. The man
elements stated that the snake's head operated as a power-
fat eathar.ic, and did him two dollars' service.—Burl. VI.
Sent.

REASONABLE P•ort.E.—The following singular mar- 1
riage has recently taken place at Stansborough. A baker,
married in 1810, and was soon afterwards obliged
to join the army. lie was male prisor.er in one of the
fret encounters of the enemy, and sent 300 leagues from
the field of battle. In 1817, his wife, not receiving any
intelligence from him, supposed he was dead, and applied
to the tribunal for permission to marry again. This was
granted to her, and she married Mr. B—. But the
honey-meow was scarcely over, when the long-lost baker,
J--, reappeared. However, instead of finding fault
with what his wife ;tad done, he approved it, and obtained
etniunt that be himself should take another wife. This
he accordingly did, and lived very happily with his second
wife until the month of June, 18'25, when she died in
Rising
birth to a seventh child. Fifteen days after, Mr.
, the husband of J--'s first wife, thought pro-
per to bid adieu to this world; and on the '26th of last
December, J— and his first wife married each other for
a second film—Boston Daily Advertiser.
A BUSHMAN'S SPOON.—In Burcheil's Travels in
Southern Africa, the following picture of savage simplicity
is given :—ln one house a little family group were drink-
ing their goat's milk from a leathern bowl, in a manner
perfectly novel. Of all the instruments for conveying li-
quid to the mouth, a brush must appear the least adapted
to such a purpose; hut with no other means than this,
they emptied their howl ; and perhaps they have discover-
ed, that the greater length of time which this mode requires
prolongs also the pleasure of their meal. The brush was
made of strong hair, and of a thickness sufficient to fill the
mouth. The manner of using it was by dipping it into
6^ bowl, and sucking the milk out.

STATR OF TRADE.
[From the Leeds Intelligences of July 20.]
We are extremely grieved to state that the prospects
of reviving trade and of employment for the working
classes, which appeared some time back in the manu-
facturing districts, have lately faded away, without leav-
ing almost a tinge of promise in the horizon 110 W im-
mediately before us. The accounts from Lancashire, '
and indeed from all places in which the cotton menu- ,
facture has been carried on, daily assume a more gloomy
and lowering tone. The benevolent funds raised to relieve
the distressed have been nearly exhausted, but the demands
for succour, instead of being exhausted also, increase, and
the pressure of the poor rates upon those pos:essed of
wealth palsies the hand of Charity, while it urges those of ,
slender means into the swelling mass of pauperism. Some
hundreds of hands (exaggerated reports say thousands)
were last week thrown out of employ in Bolton, Black-
' burn, &c. in addition to the multitudes previously in the
same predicament. Later advice. mention that the time of
the workers retained has been curtailed, in order to let the
stock of goods still on hand diminish, before another glut
is manufactured. It is likewise painful to find that these
continued and accumulating sufferings of the operative
claws begin again to curdle their patience. Symptoms
of a very bad character indeed have manifested them-
selves in Manchester, to repress which too speedy
and vigorous measures cannot be adopted, even with
the view of serving the deluded poor themselves. Let
these distressed creatures adopt, in good faith, every law-
ful and peaceable means of discussing and making known
their grievances as well as of seeking relief; but if they
wish to maintain or foster the spirit of Christian sympathy,
with which their afflictions have hitherto been unanimously
viewed and alleviated by the higher classes of society, this
object can only be attained by avoiding every sort of tur-
bulence. Outrages on one side inevitably tend to produce
callousness on the other. 'We therefore implore the un-
fortunate people, who have already borne their trials with
such comparative loyalty and resignation, not to be seduced
into an opposite course. While the high and the humble
—the wealthy and the indigent—form a united commu-
nity, the privations of the poor can never be of long dura-
tion ; for the feelings and the interests of all combine in
simultaneous efforts to remove the calamity.
It is gratifying to us to reflect. however, that this advice
has not been suggested by any overt acts of insubordina-
tion among the unemployed poor in the woollen districts
of Yorkshire. In Bradford, which is anffering from pe-
culiar circumstances, many persons arc out of work, and
trade is yet much depressed, but no improper disposition has
recently manifested itself. In Huddersfield the unem-
ployed poor are also numerous and peaceable ; and in
Leeds, as well as other places, the working classes sti 1
stiffer, but betray no intemperate feeling. We must, at
the same time observe, that the distress in Yorkshire
bears no comparison with that in Lancashire. The
use of machinery has not been carried to the extra-
vagant height in this county which characterizes the chief
seats of the cotton manufacture, and the people conse-
quently now undergo fewer of the baneful effects of sudden
vicissitudes attendant upon over-trading. Unless our po-
pulation be thinned, or new or larger markets be opened,
whatever increases the productive powers of our manufa
turers, will also increase their losses and the miseries of
the labouring poor.

THE COLONIAL TRADE.

HALIFAX, NAT 26.

Our new Colonial Acts have been there some time in
operation, but the system is by no means yet introduced;
for every day legal difficulties start up to annoy and perplex
our mercantile men. A very general opinion is beginning
to prevail that they will be ultimately injurious to the Co-
lonies; but I am inclined to think this is adopted imma-
turely, and springs more out of the practical difficulties
which are felt in bringing the laws into operation, than
from any dispassionate or expansive view of their effects.
Certain, it is, however, these difficulties are much
greater than they might have been. Our Government
did not act with caution in allowing the different
collectors to interpret the law for themselves—specific
and distinct instructions should have been sent out,
relative at all events to the American trade. Halifax, you
are aware, was shut in the first instance, and subsequenlly
opened by older of his Excellency in Council, published
in consequence of a representation from our Minister at
IVashington. But, strange to say, per a late arrival from
St. John's, Newfoundland, we learn that the Collector
there refuses to admit American vessels under the new
Act, 6 Geo. IV. c. 114, although he allows them to enter
under the Free Port Act of Iti22. All articles which are not
enumerated in this latter Act he will not permit to be
landed, so that chapter 111 of the new system is, as re-
gards your trade with that colony, a dead letter.
It ought also to be known to you that although pork,
fresh and salted, are not admissible to entry under the New
Act, this, according to flume's digest of the Custom Law,
does not include " cured beef, to which salt has not been ap-
plied in the curing of hams and bacon." These articles are
now admitted here, liable to a duty of 1.5 per cent. per cwt.
ad valorem.

In the trade, as it at present stands, American vessels
have a decided advantage. On entry here they are charged
tonnage duty of 4a 3d. sterling, or about 93 cents and 4d.
per ton light-money, the very sum which our own vessels
pay—making in all about one dollar per ton. All Custom-
house fees are now abolished. Contrast with this the
charges on a British vessel entering a port in the United
States. You demand first half a dollar per ton tonnage,
half a dollar per ton light, Custom-house fees, and above
all, on the amount of her cargo a discriminating duty of
ten per cent. Now I cannot see upon what principle of
justice Congress can refuse to pass the law now before
them for equalizing the duties on British colonial vessels.
It is a measure which equity as well as good feeling de-
mands from them.

Lastly, I would beg leave to explain that the ad valo-
rem duties under the New Act, from the mode of calculation
adopted, are greater than they nominally appear to be.
For instance, goods subject to an ad valorem duty of 10
per cent. actually pay 11 per cent. ; 20 pays 22 per cent. ;
30 33 per cent. The colonial trade is at present so
complicated, first by the existence of the old Crown duties ;
second, by the duties imposed by the late Act itself ; and
third, by the interference of the Colonial duties, that no
merchant ought to risk a shipment till he understands tho-
roughly the whole system.

DECREASE or CRIM E.—The decrease of crime in
Sussex is at this time a matter of true congratulation to its
inhabitants, and the highest proof of the efficiency of the
police, the vigilance of the Magistracy, and the policy of
its various public institutions. The school that educates
the child, the society that apprentices the youth, and the
institution that enables the poor man to provide for him-
self, alike contribute to this desirable end. To these may
be added the excellent regulation of our prisons, and the
effectual administration of the laws. The various associ-
ations, too, which individuals have agreed in the forma-
tion of, for the mutual protection of their persons and pro-
perty, tend in no small degree to prevent the perpetra-
tion of crime, by the certainty of prosecution. The
Winchester Association for the purpose has been recently
laid open to the whole county.
A CURIOUS SPECTACLE.—A few weeks since, a gentle-
man in this neighbourhood noticed a very unusual flight
of crows, who s-emed to be attracted from all directions to
one particular spot on his farm, and an incessant noise and
bustle agitated all that arrived. The gentleman took his
gun in his hand, and crept towards the spot to ascertain
the occasion, and to make a shot amongst them. On
getting within view of the centre of attraction, he was
amused to find the bustle to be occasioned by a battle be-
tween a couple of the,crows, who, notwithstanding his ap-
proach, fought on so obstinately, that they would not
separate until ►he gentleman took hold of them with his
hands, and carried the combatants home with hint.—
Maryland Reporter.
Wolves are caught in India, by the natives, in the fol-
lowing curious manner :—A deep pit is dug, and over it a
kid or lamb is suspended in a basket, with a pot of water
hanging above, having a small hole in it, through which a
drop at a time falls on the kid, and makes it cry. The
sound attracts the wolves to the spot, and when they make
their spring at the bait, they fall into the pit beneath,
which is kept from their view by being covered with loose
green ICaNTS.

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HOME CIRCUIT.

Girmnroup, Jura.' 20.
CIVIL, sing.
[Before Mr. Baron GRAHAM and a Common Jury.]
LOWE V. 'moon/. T.

This Wi' an action of trespass, foe maing and Illegally distrain-
ing plaintiff's goods. Plea the general issue.
Mr. AIARRYKTT and Jr. CIIIITTY conducted the plaintiff".
cane; and Mr. Ou 'mar the defendant's.

The plaintiff's case—sras in substance this:—ln November last,
the plaintiff' hired a ready-furnished house of the defendant, at
Peckham, on certain terms. In the memorandum of agreement
the plaintiff was denominated as • Colonel in the army, but there
was no proof that he held any such rank in the British or any other
service. It was assumed, however, that he derived the title from
the Government of Poyais, under the denomination of Colonel
M'Gregor, the Cacique of • settlement attempted to be formed
some years since on the Mosquito shore, in the hay of Honduras.
On entering into possession, the plaintiff paid rent to Christmas in
advance. In the beginning of February last the plaintiff went to
Bath for the benefit of his health, and about the 24th of that
month the circumstance occurred which gave rise to the present ac-
tion. The plaintiff's wife, who, with her daughters, remained in
possession of the house after the plaintiff went to Bath, directed
Mr. Dale, a music-seller, of the Poultry, to send down a proper
conveyance to remove to London a hired pianoforte. Mr. Gale
accordingly sent down a carriage for the purpose, and the instru-
ment having been placed in it, was carried a few paces, when the
defendant met the machine, and directed it to go back again to the
house. He then procured • constable, and caused the instrument
to he restored to its place in the house. Next day, which was Se-
turday, he put a man in possession of the house and furniture. On
the following Monday the plaintiff returned from Bath, and caused
the man to quit the house. It appeared that there were boxes in
the house containing property belonging to the plaintiff, and of
which the defendant had no right to take possession, there being
no rent actually due. Under these circumstances the action was
brought.
On the part of the defendant, it was asserted that the plaintiff
had no right to assume the rank of Colonel, and that he had been
an insolvent since the alleged trespass. Attempts were made to-
impeach the plaintiff's respectability on other grounds," of which
there was no proof. The trespass complained of was not denied,
but it was insisted, that if the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, it
could only be for the most triffilig damages.
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—Damages One Shilling.

SAME V. SAME.

This was an action by the same plaintiff 'pima the same de-
fendant, for defamatory words, importing that the plaintiff was a
-windier and a robber. Plea the general issue.
This action arose out of the transaction which was the subject of
the preceding cause. It was proved by a female servant of the
that when the defendant entered the house to seethe piano-
forte repined, he said, " It was a swindling transaction ; it was
a complete robbery ; and that he understood Colonel Lowe had
been in the King a Bench prison once, and that he (defendant)
would have him there again." The declaration averred as special
damage, that by reason of the speaking of these words. seve-
ral tradesmen, who had previously supplied the plaintiff with
goods, had refused to do so any longer. The words, as laid, were
proved by Charlotte Johnson, the plaintiff's servant. She stated
that until the plaintiff's departure fur Bath, his tradesmen's bills
were, to the best of her belief, settled weekly, and that credit had
never been refused by them to her master.
Mr. White. a surgeon of the neighbourhood, proved that the
defendant had said to him that " it was a swindling transaction."
His evidence went no farther.
. .

The baker, greengrocer. milkman, and publican, who had been
in the habit of supplying the plaintiff, were then examined. Each
of these persons positively denied that the defendant had ever said
any thing to then, which had induced them to withdraw their con-
fidence in the plaintiff ; and none of them proved the slanderous
words laid in the declaration. The milkman stated, that the plain-
tiff left Peckham in his debt to the amount of I/. 19s. 2d., which
had not since been paid ; and the publican stated, that he ceased
to sapply the plaintiff because he could not get paid, and that the
plaintiff left Peckham owing him ii!., which had sever yet been
paid.
It was submitted, on the part of the defendant, that supposing
the words to be proved, still they were not actionable in the absence
of proof of special damage, which it was contended had been com-
pletely negatived.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM was inclined to think that the words proved
were actionable, particularly those which imported that the plain-
tiff was guilty of robbery, but left the Jury to say whether they
were used in a felonious sense ; for if they were, the plaintiff was
entitled to recover such damages as appeared to the Jury to be rea-
sonable.
The Jury immediately found their verdict for the defendant.
ArKINSON V. PARKER.

This was sn altion brought by the plaintiff, to recover the value
of some fox-hounds, alleged to have been sold to the defendant.
The plaintiff is huntsman to the Union Subscription Pack of Fox-
hounds, in the county of Surrey; the defendant is a sporting
gentleman of property. residing at oldhouse, not far from Wor-
ceder. In April, the defendant announced his intention of
raising a Subscription Pack of Fox-hounds, to hunt the county of
Worce•ter, and, as is usual in such eases, caused advertisements to
be Inset-L(1 in the Sporting litegreme and Li/ In London. The
plaintiff having seer, these advertisements, immediately wrote to
Mr. l'arker, informing him that he had ten or ten and a half couple
of fox-hounds to dispose of, of all ages, but said nothing as to the
price of them. The defendant replied to this communication as
fullows

" Old House, April 29, 1825.
" Atkinson—l received your letter yesterday, and feel obliged
for your offer of the hounds, which I shall be very glad to have ; '
and if you could hire a man in your neighbourhood to bring them,
I will pay every expense. If you will write to me the day you
start them. and tell me the price, which 1 hope will not be very
great, I will send you the cash by return of post, and return the
couples by the man ; but in case you cannot get a person to bring
them, I will send a man to you for them. I wrote to you three
weeks since, and directed to you as ' Huntsman to the Union Fox
Hounds, Sussex,' a direction which Tuck gave me. Should you
come into this county at any time, I shall be glad to see you, and
will give you a mount whenever you like.
" And I remain yours, &c. &e.
"JOHN PARKIN.
" Mr. Charles Atkinson, Huntsman, Fetcham Kennel,
Leatherhead, Surrey."
The pl iintiff, agreeably to this order, employed a man, named
Airy, a postman. to take eight and a half couple to Mr. Parker.
The night before they started. plaintiff wrote to apprise Mr. Parker
of his having clone so. and also mentioned that the price would be
three r unds, or guineas, the couple. Airy, the postman, took
live dais to go with the hounds to Worcester; but as soon as they
arrived there, Air. Parker found fault with them, aid said they
would be of no use to him. He finally prevailed on Airy to take
the hounds back, giving him a receipt, and also enclosing a sove-
reign, in a letter which he sent by Airy to the plaintiff, and of
which the following is a copy.
" Old House, May 14,1825.
" Atkinson—l am sorry you have been at the trouble to send the
hounds, as I find they are of no son of use to me; the old ones
being worn out and too slow, and the young ones very very much
too small. I have, therefore, enclosed you a 11. you gave the man,
and have given hint 1/. 10s. to pay his expenses home; and what.
ever loss you may be at in sending the hounds to me, I will readily
make good to you, but I hope it will not make any material differ-
ence to you, as you have been offered so good a price for them;
and I remain yours, &c.
1 JOHN PARKER."
The hounds, on being brought back, appeared to have been con-
siderably the worse for their journey. The weather was intolerably
hot at the time, and the fatigue of travelling so great a distance
reduced their condition to that degree that the plaintiff was under
tho necessity of selling five couple and a half for 12/4 two couple
and a half were knocked on the head, and the remaining couple
were kept in the kennel to breed from.
Airy, the postman, proved that he went with the hounds to
Worcester. and the effect of the journey in injuring the dogs.
James Crouch, feeder of the Union Hounds for twenty years,
stated that he was acquainted with them ; that before they were
sent to Worcester, they were well worth 3/. a couple ; but that
they were very much reduced in valise when they returned.
Mr. Morton stated that lie lived at the Derby Arms, in Croy:
don ; that he purchased live couple and a half of the bounds in
May last, for 121. They went reduced in condition, but if is pod
condition, would have been well worth three gulaseesa
Mr. AIML rn cs, for the defendant, olotended,
iz
of the bargain not being. complied with—namely, that Ilet
not being of the description that the defendant wanted, he bad a
right to say that he would not take them; that in sending them
back, and paying what he did towards defraying the charges and
trouble of sending them, be had acted fairly and justly ; and that
no imputation could possibly rest upon his conduct.
The Jury without hesitation fouud a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 151.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
EXUTIR. TnuRSDAY, JULY 20.
The Commission was opened here last evening, when the Judges
arrived from Sidmouth. attended by Lewis W. Buck, Esq.,
the High Sheriff of the County. Mr. Juiviee Oman sits in the
Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Llttledale presides at the Civil side.
The calendar is unusually light. But thirt-two teufree and thir-
teen Special Jury cases are entered for trial In the Nisi Prius Court.
The Attorney-General is engaged in some of the latter, and is ex-
pected to arrive here early next week. Many of the eases are likely
to occupy a day or more each.
CROWN SIDE.
Jahn Lark was indicted for stealing an axe and chisel, the pro-
perty of William Bright, in the parish of Bideford. He was also
indicted for stealing a rope, value 65., the property of John Evans,
at the same place, on the following night.
The prisoner was found Guilty of both charges on the clearest
testimony.
It appeared that the prisoner's habits of thieving were quite inve-
terate, as he had been convicted of stealing on different occasions.
At one Assizes he was sentenced to be impriaoned ; at another to
be imprisoned and whipped ; and at the Quarter Sessions he was
sentenced to be imprisoned and placed in the stocks.
The prisoner was now sentenced to be transported [for seven
years.
William Perrlamn was indicted for stealing 101bs. of iron, the
property of W. Honeyman, of Boneytracey.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is a young lad, was In the

service of the prosecutor, a respectable corn-desk', and that the
property named in the indictment was stolen from corn-loft, and
given by the prisoner to the prosecutor's sons, the eldest of whom
did not appear to be above nine years of age. The prisoner induced
the children to take the iron to a blacksmith's, and say their mother
sent it to sell. The blacksmith paid Ind. lime the iron, which the
prisoner afterwards had from the children.
The learned Junce strongly commented upon the depravity
which the prisoner evinced in inducing his master 'a children to go
to the blacksmith with a falsehood on their tongues.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to be kept to hard
labour, in the House of Correction, for four months.
James Pyne and Thomas Glanville were indicted for breaking
open the house of John Vildey, of Faradan, and stealing therefrom
various articles of wearing apparel.
The prosecutor and his family went to church on Sunday, the
14th inst., and in their absence the back door was broken open,and the
property in question stolen. It was afterwards found in possession
of the prisoners, who, not having been able sat sfactorily to account
for having it, were found

CIVIL SIDE.
[Before 11Ir. Justice LITTLE DAi.E.I
LEAMAN V. lIANI LYN.

This was an action in replevin for en illegal distress, alleged to
have been made by the landlord ( Hamlyn ) on the tenant (Leaman).
The landlord avowed that he made the distress for the rent due.
To this avowal the tenant pleaded that the proceedings in the dis-
tress were taken in reference to the tttkh of September, whereas the
tenancy, by the terms of the written agreement, was from the 24th
of September. Another ground on which the tenant relied was,
that a relation of the landlord's remained in possession of a cottage
on the land. On the part of the landlord it was replied, that the
24th of September was inserted by mistake for the 29th, and he
was willing to admit he had no right of rent for those five day,.
He was also willing to allow a deduction fur the cottage held by his
relation.
Verdict for the landlord fora year's rent, 1281.