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Mr. Bronterre O'Brien has sent us for insertion a
long letter which appeared in the Times of yesterday,
complaining of the treatment he received at the hands
of the Bow-street officers, and also of certain portions
of the report of his examination before the Magistrate.
The first part of the lt tter is little more than an am-
plification of the statement which he made to Mr.
ford, on Friday, the 11th instant, which we published ;
and being pressed for room we cannot see any necessity for
inserting it. The other portion, relative to the exami-
nation, with which the letter concludes, we willingly
give. It is as follows :-
1 our reporter, Sir, has made me say, when before
the Magistrates, " that the institutions of the country
property to the amount of 1,000/.
had stripped me of
a-year," &c. The tendency of this report is to make
me appear an impostor, it being well known that I
never possessed property to that amount, nor anything
like it. What I did say was, that the institutions or
the country had deprived me of the means of acquiring
property to the amount of at least 1,000/. a-year, &c.,
an assertion which I can easily make good. Your
reporter also makes it appear that Sergeant Kerr
had some difficulty in finding me, that he
had " attended five or six public meetings for
that purpose, and at last succeeded in capturing me,"
&c. All this, Sir, is incorrect. Sergeant Kerr knew
well where to find me, having before arrested nie on
the 12th of August, in my own house, where he
might have done the same again at any hour of
the day, had his employers thought proper to send him.
I am not a man, Sir, to keep out of the way of the
law, as Sergeant Kerr's employers well know. But it
suited their base purpose, instead of arresting me in the
morning, and at may own house, to arrest me at night,
and away from my house, in order to have me locked
up in a dungeon -for thirteen hours, to alarm my wife
and family by my non-appearance at home, and to cut.
.me off from the chances of having bail before five
o'clock next day, when I should necessarily be sent off
to Lancaster, perhaps handcuffed like a common thief
or felon. For these mis-statements, however, Ido not
blame your reporter, who, doubtless, had his informa-
tion from the Bow-street gentry,"
PATENT PENCIL.—A patent has been taken out for
what the inventor considers a great improvement in the
construction of the ever, pointed pencil. In this the ex-
ternal slide and slot in the case are dispensed with, and
the point is pushed out by the action of an internal
screw. These appear the main points of difference be-
tween it and Mordau's, which has obtained such cele-
brity. The workmanship is excellent, and it certainly
surpasses all other pencils in one respect—the length of
the name—" Riddle's new spirally-propelled patent ever-
pointed pencil." It requires a screw to push out the
name, as Jonathan would say.

THE WEATHER.—A change in the weather
took place on Wednesday, when some rain fell. The
following day it rained incessantly, and to-day we have
some drizzling showers, with a cloudy sky and a humid
atmosphere.
POPE TO SWIFT.—" They have scoundrels
enough to write for their passions and designs ; let us
write for truth, for honour, and for posterity."-1726.
A NEW METHOD OF EVINCING ONE'S GRA.
TITUDE.—Joseph Williamson, a bottle-nosed, happy.
looking sailor, apparently fully " three sheets in the
wind," was placed at the Hull Police bar, charged by
police-constable No. 19 with being drunk and incapable
that morning.—lnspector Tacey said that the police-
man, about three months since, met the prisoner drunk,
and took care of him by assisting him on board his
vessel. He had no sooner seen the prisoner safely on
hoard, than that gentleman, much to his astonishment,
struck him a forcible blow on the face, saying " There,
take that for your trouble."—Mr. Carrick : Well, Jo-
seph, what do you say to this?—Prisoner : Nothing of
the sort, Sir.—Mr. Carrick : I think we must make you
pay this time for what you did the last. When did you
arrive ?—Joseph : On Tuesday, Sir.—Mr. Carrick :
And have been drunk ever since ?—Joseph : Yes,
Sir.—Mr. Carrick : Why, you're not sober now ?
Prisoner (hitching up his trowsars and hiccupping most
formidably): 0 yes, Sir, sober as a Judge, now.—Mr.
Carrick : if you are sober now, what are you when
you are drunk ?—Joseph (very seriously) : Why, your
Honour, I can neither speak, stand, nor walk then. On
promising to keep a little more sober in future, the
sailor was then discharged.
RURAL AFFAIRS.—Last week was characteris-
tic of the whole season—three dry days and three wet ;
or, in other words, good and bad, time about. Ou
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the weather was fine ;
hut daylight now is so much abridged, and frosty dews
so heavy in the morning, that husbandmen are com-
pelled to put their spurs on, and do everything in hot
haste, if they expect to do any good at all. Bad as the
beginning of the week was, tide occurred during which
shearing went forward ; but there could be no leading
up till Thursday, or rather Friday, Saturday in espe-
cial was an invaluable day, and enabled so many to
make a clean sweep, that harvest work must be, we
suppose, about nine-tenths concluded in Dumfriesshire
and Galloway. Amidst weather so critical much good
has been done by gaiting—that is, placing the sheaves
on end with the tops well spread, instead of gather-
ing them into stooks. Oats, unlike wheat and barley,
are for the most part clean in the straw ; and when
treated in this manner may be forked and carted .at the
end of two favourable days. Stooking, hooding, and
then opening, perhaps three or four times running, is a
bad plan in rainy weather, which entails loss to the ex-
tent of a seeding, and some times more. Mr. Brown,
Ingleston, has saved, by gaiting, many acres of excel-
lent crop on the higher parts of his beautiful farm, that
would otherwise have suffered serious deterioration from
repeated handling ; and we believe that his example has
been generally followed in Kirkbean and various other
quarters. In the valleys there are numbers who had
every sheaf stacked a fortnight ago ; and although hill-
men may still have some patches to cut, the aggregate
breadth must be inconsiderable and should the baro-
meter realise its present promise, harvest-home will be
all but universal in the south of Scotland by Saturday
next. The sheep are thriving on the stubble fields,
where they find grasses intermixed that suit their nature
well ; and we were mistaken last week in limiting sown
grass keep to a fortnight. On some farms it-will extend
to a month. Raising rznd storing potatoes are again in
full operation ; blanks in the drills are by no means un-
known, chiefly owing to the greedy crows, who by
scraping purloined many a set ; but the crop upon the"
whole is considered a good one, and at least a half
heavier than that of last year.—Dumfries courier.
CAPTURE OF WHALES IN LOCIIRYAN.=
On Tuesday morning last, a very unusual ap?earance
presented itself to the good folks, of fishing notoriety,
in Kirkcoltn. Two monsters of the deep, of the bottle-
nosed description of whale, had come round the Scour
and embayed themselves in the wick ; the receding tide
swept its treacherous waters from under them, and,
finding themselves grounded, their mighty exertions
were truly terrific, yet unavailing, for their extrication.
Mr. Robertson, of Clendry, was the first who took no-
tice of the errant strangers, and arming himself and re
tainers with pitchforks and knives, repaired to the scene
of action and commenced the terrible onslaught—the
dangerous work of death. And here a remarkable
scene took place. The dying agonies of the mighty
monsters were truly tremendous. Desperate from the
repeated thrusts of their opponents, and from their in-
extricable position, their powerful toils were brought
into play with astonishing effect. The water (of which
there was yet a quantity around them), was lashed into
foam and agitation, the crested waves stretching to an
incredible distance, while high in the air the water.
' ascended in one unbroken sheet. From their blow-.
holes the crimsoned water was sent in a jet, imposingly
grand, to a great height. After similar and protracted
writhings, with a kind of snort or roar, their fury sub-
sided, and in a short time ail was still. They were-
towed to the shore, amidst the gaze of numerous and
wonder-stricken spectators, a large number of whom ar-
rived hourly to inspect them. A number of men were
then employed to cut the blubber, of which there were
thirteen barrels, leading five carts. Mr. Robertson will
thus realise a very remunerating day's fishing. The
dimensions of the largest fish were 24 feet 4 inches in
length, and 16 feet at the thickest part in circumfe-
rence ; the smaller one about 16 feet long, and thick
in proportion. The tail of the largest was 6f feet in
breadth.--Galloway Register.
CAUTION TO JURORS.—At an inquest held
before Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, at the Mon-
tague Arms, in the hamlet of Hatcham, near Peckham,
upon the body of a child which was accidentally suf-
focated in bed, the Coroner and several of the jury were
kept waiting for upwards of three quarters of an hour
by the non-attendance of the other parties summoned.
Those who were present complained that their time
should he so wasted. The Coroner said the last time
he was there he had been kept waiting half an hour, and
he saw that he should very soon he compelled to adopt
the course pursued by Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for
Kent, against a juryman who had failed to attend when
summoned. A juror asked what that was? The Coro-
ner—By indictment at the sessions ; in the case I have
alluded to I believe the juryman was fined 501. lam
always punctual myself, and it is too bad that five or
six gentlemen should be kept waiting because others
chose to stay away. It was suggested that more should
be summoned, The Coroner said he did not wish to
bring twenty-Four gentlemen out of their business when
fifteen would do. Sntne short time since Mr. Payne fined
about ten absent jurymen, and ever since that time nearly
the whole of those summoned have been careful to at-
tend, in order to avoid a similar infliction. The evil
complained of, it is more thin probable, is occasioned
by the parties not being summoned by the beadle, who
merely takes their promises to be present, and when
private business interferes the promise is not kept. In
I the case on which this observation was made a verdict
of " Natural Death" was returned.