The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TUE CO6-14- TRY.

(From a Correspondent of the liforiiing. Claroack
DRC. 7.—On my journey through Hants, 'whence I re-
turned this morning, I heard several statements which I
communicate to you.

A hay-stack, the property of Mr. Lyllywhite, of Exton,
which waS iontredi wee last week set on tiri—the incen-
diary suprpoeed a stranger. No account of this has ap-
peared in any paper-
Exton is on the Gospisrt-road, 14
ruilci brio* Altutt. iHr. L. is very much revel:Nil by his -
neighbours.
In a palish between Winchester and Andover, s mob of
labourers, from No to *OO its number, went to the parieh
chtirch during morning service, made the Minister desist
in the middle of service and accompany them into -the
church-yard, when they insisted on his lowering his tithes.
On his presenting them with V/. and promisiog to take
their application into consideration, they departed quietly
to their homes. This occurred on Sunday week.
At Bishop's Waltham, the Itlegittratos of that part of
Hants, were engaged hearing wore of machine breaking.
A gentlemen of that place told use some of the mew eons-
misted were of the hest sort of farmers' labourers, and
bore the best of characters, but they had been pressed by
others and forced to join in the work of destruction,
l'wo very respectable farmers are out on bail, for having
been among those who persuaded the working men to arta
of violence..

A meeting was Axed fur Saturday, id Andover, of
owners and occupiers of land, about the farmers conti-
nuing to pay the advanced price; which the latter mean
to decline, unless land and tithe-holders lower rents and
tithes.

A meeting took place et Da444o* OA Faith% of the
influential gentlemen of that neighbourhood, farmers,
tiaders, &c., for the purpose of taking into cuasideration
the assembling the yeomanry. Tilt whole of the ferule;
at
and others declined, observing that the only Means of af-
fording protection to property mid person was to lower
rent., tithes, and Way and refdrin the Itepresentetlon:
At a plue vary. neer Audovin, a mob of labourer,. r,
few days einee,-went to the house of a farmer, Malty the
whole family quit the house and go to a dietent that
to remain during the pleasure of the mob. They team-
belied, in the iuterim, the whole of the furniture, draok
the beer, &c., and committed other improprieties.
People throughout the country are thing in great
and one and all agree that the laboureis have been used,
and unquestituisibly they are much pitied. In many in-
stencil, the very best sort of labouring men have been
pressed to accumpeny others, and join in acts of violence.
against their inclination.
The Provincial Preto, through dread. 1 summons, of the
Vnpaid, or'to gratify them, pmerve silence on moat of
these trensactiens. The labourers are, in troth, much to
be pitied—they are a poor, deluded, ill-used' set ofmen,
whose patience and long-continued privations have only
Added to the disposition to trample on them. Men in
Bower ought to reflect on these things.
On Friday evening the 3d of December, about seven
o'clock, tctiro broke cut at Olney, Bucks, which destroyed
a cow house and two cottages, adjoining the Hack-street
in that place. One of the cottage.. was inhabited by
Thomas Bays, a respectable old men, 81 years of age.
His wife, about 70, and needy blind, was Saved, with
some difficulty, through the exertions of one or two gets.
denten who were present sous after the alarm ad tire,wea
given. The row of buildings stood at right angles, against
the back part of the street. The house in the street,
against which the last cottage stood, happened to be tiled.;
otherwise the tire would probably have extended further.
The fire commenced at the cow-house, and h generally
supposed to have been effected by an incendiary.
Oxronn, Dee: fl.----Last night, on inquiry, It appoitrit
that a fire broke out in the barn of a man residing at
Cannier, about four miles from Oxford, which destroyed
about eight quarter* of barley end as many beaus, together
with the barn and an adjoining stable. It is thought that
this is an act of private and individual malignity io re.
wage for some void or fancied wrong.

At a meeting of the joint 'Vestry of St. Giles
and St. George, Itooinshury, held last week, a reatilutito
wail moved and seconded, that it petition he, presented to
the Hume of Commons ter the repeal of the Hauls Mid
Window Tax t• but the Mathis was Ultimately withdriwn
from a conviction that Ma Majesty's present Ministers will
certainly relieve the country kern a tai which bears so
heavily on trade and the middle classes in society.
COVENT...GARDEN THEATRE.,---.4OWE'S
Fair Penitent, on its revival, drew a full !tense last night
to see Miss F. KEstiLl: in the part of Ciiiistit. She
itcr
quitted herself in a manner to add to her growing repute-
lion. If her Cando have a run, It will he thii greatest
triumph she has yet gained, for it will be a hiumph rent
merely of talent, but a triumph over a
amoh over-preised
4404, is east as we can well imagine., What does
the reader think of Mr. Ammer as Letnorist—et part that
-
ought to carry at least home glitter and about
it ? Ile is a highly respectable, as well as O gentlemanly,
man, but he is a had actor, and that is an answer to every
thing that can be said in favour, of putting hurt forward..
Mr, 1140,ay. Alio played Altenneet, is wersei his fail-,
lugs' may probalq arise fromlsvant of experienee in his
profession ; but experience etinnot remedy the defect of his
Yoke. C. KtAntAtt In endeavouring to give more firm.
nets and met-Wilma to Horatio than hit displays in Pierre,
Intorno too atiiT and formals #O4 therefore erred on the
other side; hut with all exception or WO. in the quarrel
scene with Latlioria, he delivered the lines well, and wait
warmly applawed. Of Mils XStlnl.Ria esitisfa tta have
really little to say but praise. Her enunci4t)un Of some
`passage. was rather too elaborate mid
I was the dekat of her first speech in the tragedy, where
she deserihea, at wearisome length, the sort tif plum ah,
wishes to inhabit in company (if company it 'elm be tailed)
with a skeleton. She overcame it very happily jeweller-
wattle,. when reaming on the manner its.whieh effected
virtue will led her atory.—e passage thee, with many
others, was rewarded by ar hail-shower of plaudits. it
ua
the
iftio mir I be ruined," Wei exquisitely
strucktbre one of the beet delivered paw4geis tif
evening ways early in the interview with Zoilintio, which
" K:Nntlist.te the
to fourtht wt
.4 net, 'the exprestien giVeti by AN*
toutiagi Her Lot umma with her father, when she'dneui
at hie* feet, in an agony of grief and sthanith was as pathol. •
as it could 1* tvntlered, notwithatanding the • intritsine of
the ridiculous line where Celisto toliti of angel* playing
upon golden Adkile.. At the fall of the flu taut- plikuse did not tutheitie until C. Xttatime came fitrweed in
eurounee the tragedy for repetition on Friday trollsliastley.